[CentOS] Tar so slow! Is there anything faster?
Adam Tauno Williams
awilliam at whitemice.org
Thu Jan 6 14:06:54 UTC 2011
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!].
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