7 Jun
2007
7 Jun
'07
2:05 p.m.
On Thursday 07 June 2007, Tom Brown wrote:
I believe it goes something like:
cd /some/input/dir tar cvf - . | (cd /to/here; tar xvf -)
that is spot on thanks! does it buffer anything in memory do you know or any other temp space? Just wonder as there are a few gigs of data.
add a dd command to the pipe if you want buffers.
That said, my personal opinion is that non-trivial data move operations should not be done with tools like tar, tools that does not allow restart/resume. You mentioned rsync, why not use it.
/Peter
thanks