On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 16:06, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at 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. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com