Mirror Server

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 10:59:09AM -0700 I heard the voice of
Joe Miller, and lo! it spake thus:
> You can eliminate having to have a huge chunk of space available with tar
> by piping the tar output to another tar process that immediately writes
> the data to the new disk, ie:
> 
> tar cvf - / | (cd /backup/disk ; tar xvf - )

tar -cf - -C / . | tar -xvpf - -C /backup/disk

(-v on both gets irritating)

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Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd at over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator |  http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/

"The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I
      haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"