On Thursday 07 June 2007, Tom Brown wrote: > > I believe it goes something like: > > > > cd /some/input/dir > > tar cvf - . | (cd /to/here; tar xvf -) > > that is spot on thanks! does it buffer anything in memory do you know or > any other temp space? Just wonder as there are a few gigs of data. add a dd command to the pipe if you want buffers. That said, my personal opinion is that non-trivial data move operations should not be done with tools like tar, tools that does not allow restart/resume. You mentioned rsync, why not use it. /Peter > thanks
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