[Mailman-Users] the best way to...

[Dave Sherohman]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 12:06:06PM -0500, Paul Tomblin wrote:
> Quoting Dave Sherohman (esper at sherohman.org):
> > find . -xdev -print0 | cpio -pvdm0 /export/home2
> 
> Or my personal favourite
> 
> tar cvfB - . | (cd /export/home2; tar xvBPf -)

I've always stuck with cpio because I've heard that tar has problems
dealing with links and other special files.  Is that a thing of the
past?

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