[H-GEN] Problem copying files to a Wondoze NT server.

[Ewan Edwards]

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On Thursday 19 September 2002 08:33, Ewan Edwards wrote:
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> On Tuesday 17 September 2002 15:21, you wrote:
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> > When copying large or lots of files I always have more success using
> > find and cpio
> >
> > find <path> <options> | cpio -pm /mnt/apps
>
> Robert,
>
> Hadn't thought of trying that.  I'll refer to the man page for cpio and try
> it out.  Might even have a look at trying dd to see what that does.
>
> Ewan


Neither cpio or dd managed to do the job.  dd does exactly the same thing as 
cp ie: the process just hangs there chewing up lots of CPU.  

cpio was a little different;

<snip>
[root at topaz backups]# ls repository.*
repository.tgz
[root at topaz backups]# ls repository.tgz | cpio -mp /mnt/apps/Topaz_backup/
cpio: repository.tgz: Value too large for defined data type
0 blocks
[root at topaz backups]# 
</snip>

As a work around, I've split the job up to create two tgz files, one about 
1GB and one about 1.5GB.  This should work OK.

Thanks to those who responded to my posting.

Ewan

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