if I remember well you can copy it safely with usam and rsync and tar but not 
with cp as the files can contain 'holes' 

there is or was a technote about this on the legato website

Maarten


On Wednesday 23 November 2005 13:13, Athanasios Douitsis wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> My index directory is located at /misc/nsr/index. If I cp -rp it
> to say, /var/index and then make a symlink in the /misc/nsr
> directory to point to /var/index, would networker be able to function
> correctly?
>
> Thanks,
> Athanasios
>
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