I also just realised, that I never actually wanted to do compression or de-compression in the first place!
The command I originally proposed is: tar --ignore-failed-read -C $SRC -cpf - . | tar --ignore-failed-read -C $DEST -xpvf - which as far as I can tell, has no compression in it, no? Cheers -- Aryan On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Jason White <[email protected]> wrote: > Aryan Ameri <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am looking for something that's reliable, that can handle read >> errors without exiting, that can continue the operation where it was >> left off if it was interrupted, that can preserve all metadata and >> symlinks. What's the right tool to use for this? > > Rsync can do most of the above. > > _______________________________________________ > luv-main mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
