[clue-tech] Linux server, backups...

[Jed S. Baer]

On Sat, 1 Nov 2008 16:03:59 -0700 (PDT)
Adrian F. Nagle, IV wrote:

> I have two external hard drives on my Linux server.  What is the
> easiest way to backup one drive onto another.

cd /drive1
tar cf - . | (cd /drive2; tar xf -)

That does:
  tar; create file and send it to stdout, from the current directory

  pipe it to this other tar process, which extracts from file, reading
from stdin, but cd to the destination first.

jed