Re: Tar so slow! Is there anything faster?

[Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 16:06, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 15:47 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> I need to tar up a good 100 GiB of files, but tar is progressing at a
>> rate of about 1 MiB per second. Is there something, anything, faster?
>
> Yes, star.
>
> <http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/star.html>
>
> And it is in the CentOS repos. ÂThe "-fifo" option can help allot [and
> it backs up ACLS & xattrs too!].
>

Thanks, I'll take a look at that.


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