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!].