Re: Tar so slow! Is there anything faster?

[Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 16:08, Arun Khan <knura9@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Thanks, Jerry, I was in fact using bzip2:
>> $ tar -cjf dcl-2010-12-07.tbz dcl-2010-12-07/
>
> bzip2 will slow down the operation. ÂIf you don't really need
> compressed than simply do "tar cf Â<tar file> Â<dir/file list>"
>

Yup, that's what I'm doing now! Thanks.


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