Re: Copying and taring large amounts of data

[Tom Cook <tom.cook@adelaide.edu.au>]

Elizabeth Barham wrote:
> 
> tar cf - /path-to-be-archived | gzip -c > /new/place/to store-file.tar.gz

tar -czf /new/place/to/store-file.tar.gz /path-to-be-archived

is identical but easier to type ;-)

Tom