Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 20:32:49 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: Joe Miller <joeym@joeym.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mirror Server Message-ID: <20030603013249.GY61246@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <20030602175909.GL51524@joeym.net> References: <BB00C76C.3598B%michael@staff.openaccess.org> <AJENJFOLCLAHHIIGCCHNEEAFGMAA.admin-lists@wolfpaw.net> <20030602175909.GL51524@joeym.net>
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On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 10:59:09AM -0700 I heard the voice of Joe Miller, and lo! it spake thus: > You can eliminate having to have a huge chunk of space available with tar > by piping the tar output to another tar process that immediately writes > the data to the new disk, ie: > > tar cvf - / | (cd /backup/disk ; tar xvf - ) tar -cf - -C / . | tar -xvpf - -C /backup/disk (-v on both gets irritating) -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"
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