[tech] meito (the new fileserver)

[Grahame Bowland]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 01:52:24PM +0800, Nick Bannon wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 01:30:00PM +0800, Nick Bannon wrote:
> [...]
> > "tar cf - ... | cpio -im". I still like dump, but I can't actually
> > see a /sbin/advfsdump or similar installed at the moment... Odd.
> [...]
> 
> Ah, that'd be vdump.

My preferred way to copy files around is this:
ssh tartarus 'find . -mount -print0 | cpio -0o' | cpio -im

Works very well; I've used similar syntax locally with no problems.
It beats tar/dump/etc hands-down.

Cheers
Grahame