tar has been around for as long as *ux. So it's had plenty of time to mature.
As with many of the vintage *ux cammand line utilities it can be cryptic and not necessarily intuitive to use. Mac On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 01:44 +0200, Ralf wrote: > Does anybody know something about tar? > > Very interesting, I deleted a broken Maverick-Natty-Upgrade-Install by > # rm -r *, then I copied a backup archive and restored Maverick from the > backup by tar xzf *, restoring Maverick takes between 3 and 4 minutes > only. > > How is this possible? > > The restored Maverick seems to be ok, at least Email etc. is ok, the > size, 6.76 GiB is correct. > > An amazing voodoo trick. > > I didn't know that it's that fast. > > -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
