Backup Size

[Jay Hall]

On Aug 11, 2009, at 12:09 PM, Roland Smith wrote:
>
> Just execute the tar command, and dump the output to /dev/null  
> through dd:
> tar -cf - /etc |dd of=/dev/null
> tar: Removing leading '/' from member names
> 3160+0 records in
> 3160+0 records out
> 1617920 bytes transferred in 0.057690 secs (28045115 bytes/sec)
>
> This will give you the exact size without writing anything to disk.
>
Thanks.  I had not thought of that.


Jay