Re: Reading from a .tgz takes a long long time

[John Allen <john.allen@dublinux.net>]

Merciadri Luca wrote:
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> Hello folks,
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> I use tar to make (not necessarily incremental) backups of my /etc/*,
> /home/*, and other important folders. I am encountering a problem:
> reading a file in a .tgz takes a really long time. I use the
> Archive Manager GUI (of GNOME) to go through all the folders of my
> .tgz. My archive is ~5 Gigs.
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> For example, let's say that I want to read my old /etc/fstab in my
> .tgz. It takes something like 10 min to open it. The external HDD
> where the .tgz is saved is connected through USB2 (same problem with
> firewire) and other tasks are performed in a reasonable amount of
> time.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>   
Well one idea is to stop using tar, and use a generational rsync backup 
tool instead.

One such tool is http://rsnapshot.org/
> Thanks.
> - -- 
> Merciadri Luca
> See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/
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