On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 16:06, Adam Tauno Williams awilliam@whitemice.org wrote:
On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 15:47 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
I need to tar up a good 100 GiB of files, but tar is progressing at a rate of about 1 MiB per second. Is there something, anything, faster?
Yes, star.
http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/star.html
And it is in the CentOS repos. The "-fifo" option can help allot [and it backs up ACLS & xattrs too!].
Thanks, I'll take a look at that.