On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 08:27:05AM -0500, David B. Harris wrote: > > I'd suggest one of two methods: > > 1) 'umount <mounted filesystems you don't want copied: ie /proc>; tar c > / > partition.tar' -or- 'umount <mounted filesystems you don't want > copied: ie /proc>; (tar c / | gzip -9) > partition.tar.gz' if you've got > more CPU power than network bandwidth. > 2) and I'm not sure about this, but 'scp' would be good here. It will do > on-the-fly compression. Just read the docs to double-check that it > handles links and device files properly. It's part of 'ssh'. > here is a fun trick: tar cf - / | ssh -C host 'cd /mnt; tar -xf -' ssh -C enables compression which is think is default anyway. gzipping before going over ssh compression is redunant and unlikely to gain all that much. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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