Amanda-Users

Re: moved to new disk, now amanda wants to do level 0's on whole system

2003-11-14 15:29:41
Subject: Re: moved to new disk, now amanda wants to do level 0's on whole system
From: Mitch Collinsworth <mitch AT ccmr.cornell DOT edu>
To: Eric Siegerman <erics AT telepres DOT com>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:28:47 -0500 (EST)
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Eric Siegerman wrote:

> But all of those -- tar, cpio, rsync -- are kludges.  Is it just
> me, or do other people also find it ludicrous that 30+ years on,
> UNIX still doesn't have a proper copy command?

Huh?  You just showed there are enough flavors to suit just about
any taste.  The only obvious one I see missing is dd, which is
great for copying a whole partition.

-Mitch