Re: tar copying problems for "/" to "/mnt"
In article <[🔎] 20010916130829.A651@amnesiac> you write:
>cd /; tar cf - / | (cd /mnt; tar xf - )
>
>this works fine but i get this timestamp messages:
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>tar: Archive contains future timestamp 2001-09-16 20:33:45
One problem with this command is it will copy /mnt to /mnt/mnt to
/mnt/mnt/mnt ....
The -l option is one way to avoid this problem. (It may even be
why you get the timestamp error -- the modified time of /mnt will be
after the tar started.)
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