Re: [Sheflug] NFS the hard way

["Barrie Bremner" <nospam [at] barriebremner.com>]

Missed a line out of my last email:

This is much better than NFS, and you've as much chance (not much) of
breaking things with this mention (or the tar mention I described) as
with NFS.

Baz.

Graham Cox writes:
 > Surely there's a much easier way to solve this, assuming you actually can do
 > it. All you need to do is to take the hard drive out of the server and stick
 > it in the machine your duplicating it to, and then mount it under that
 > computer and copy it across. It would save all the hassle of NFS, as it's
 > not being used, and it would also be a lot faster than copying the hard
 > drive over a network link. This is, of course, assuming you can take the
 > computers offline for long enough to do this.
 
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