Hmm...perhaps it doesn't work on all *nix variants, but I actually tried
that before I posted it (on Fedora 10), and it did what I would expect,
created /backup/directory/source/directory/<contents>
I'll bear that in mind, though.
Dave
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Kathryn Smith wrote:
--- On Thu, 1/8/09, David Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
tar cf - /source/directory | ( cd /backup/directory ; tar
xvf - )
This is probabably obvious, but having shot myself in the foot with it in the
past, I can't let this go by without pointing it out. If you try this approach,
be absolutely sure you use
tar cf - ./source/directory
The example here looks like you're using a full, absolute path name starting at
root for your source directory. If you write that using a pipe, it goes right
back where it started, not to /backup/directory you've just changed into.
Been there, done it to myself, spent a very long weekend recovering the file
system.
Kathryn
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