Re: [newbie] How long to create a large tar.gz

2003-10-22 Thread RichardA
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 05:51:00 -0400, HaywireMac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The directory is about 630MB, and I left it going for 4.5 hours > creating a tar.bz2, still wasn't done when I got up this AM. It's been mentioned before, but is there a link somewhere to a higher directory, making a loop?

Re: [newbie] How long to create a large tar.gz

2003-10-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:40:53 -0700 Eric Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > YMMV, but i have heard people profess loudly not to use compression > on backups. The tar isn't as small, but way less chance of > corruption... I tested 'em all afore I burned 'em, but thanks for the concern! -- Haywi

Re: [newbie] How long to create a large tar.gz

2003-10-22 Thread Eric Huff
> I want back up a directory to an archive for my upcoming big wipe > for 9.2. > > The directory is about 630MB, and I left it going for 4.5 hours > creating a tar.bz2, still wasn't done when I got up this AM. > > Is it faster (but less compression) just to do tar.gz? YMMV, but i have heard peop

Re: [newbie] How long to create a large tar.gz

2003-10-22 Thread John Richard Smith
HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:59:57 +0200 Raffaele Belardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: $ tar cvzf archive_file.tgz archive_directory/ will tar and compress the contents of archive_directory/ into a file named archive_file.tgz. v is not mandatory, but gives you the idea of the prog

Re: [newbie] How long to create a large tar.gz

2003-10-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:59:57 +0200 Raffaele Belardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > $ tar cvzf archive_file.tgz archive_directory/ > > will tar and compress the contents of archive_directory/ into a file > named archive_file.tgz. > v is not mandatory, but gives you the idea of the progress it's >

RE: [newbie] How long to create a large tar.gz

2003-10-22 Thread Tony S. Sykes
You have to tell it what to tar and where to tar it to. tar -cfz test.tar /home/test/. Tony. -Original Message- From: HaywireMac [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 10:51 AM To: Mandrake Newbs Subject: [newbie] How long to create a large tar.gz I want back up a

Re: [newbie] How long to create a large tar.gz

2003-10-22 Thread Raffaele Belardi
$ tar cvzf archive_file.tgz archive_directory/ will tar and compress the contents of archive_directory/ into a file named archive_file.tgz. v is not mandatory, but gives you the idea of the progress it's making. On my PIII/733 it takes less than 15minutes to tar and gzip more than 600Mbyte of d