On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 04:54:03PM +0100, Guillaume wrote: > actually, I use the tar utility to backup my fedora box to a file... > After a full backup file is reach near 8GB, and when I want to restore > some backuped files, it take veeerrrryyy long time (more than 1h30) to > analyse/index the file and extract the needed folders. Is there a way > to speed up the restore process with any options to tar, or, any other > command utility to use for my backup. It's probably better to use a tool like rsync. man rsync Rui -- P'tang! Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 4th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3174 + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list