A questiong about replacing my failing drive

[b.j.smith at ieee.org (Bryan J. Smith)]

On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 17:17 -0400, Mark Weaver wrote:
> because it simply works with the least amount of possibility for error. 
> Its a matter of using the right tool for the job. nothin more nothin less.

Whoa!
Sorry, but us long-time UNIX admins would greatly _differ_ with you.

I typically use 'find|cpio', and someone else mentioned 'dump|restore'
and I know 'tar c|tar x' is yet another.  These are _native_ tools of
the UNIX platform.

Ghost, Drive Copy/Image, etc... are great for dealing with NT which
doesn't like to be cloned.  But in UNIX/Linux, the native tools of the
OS are far better.


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