gtar and sockets

[Tom Strickland]

I'm running Linux Mandrake 7.2 and my / partition is getting rather
full. I decided to move the /var and /tmp partitions to another drive,
thus freeing up space. I tried to use:
# cd /var
# tar -cf - .;(cd /var-new; tar -xpf -)

and thus I discovered the 'socket ignored' problem with gtar. It won't
backup my postfix sockets. I know that this isn't specifically an
amanda question, but this is exactly the sort of thing that people on
this list know all about. Any tips?

tom