On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 08:49:48AM +0100, Christian Groessler wrote: > I always do > > tar -cf - -C <srcdir> . | tar -xf - -C <destdir>
Ah, the pre-rsync classic. I remember those times... Back in 2010 or so, I did stumble upon a machine which hadn't rsync (can you imagine?) and no functional sysadmin. There I resorted to ssh user@host tar -C dir cvzf - | tar xvzf - (plus or minus some decoration). Bad old times :-) Yes, wen doing locally, moving all the files isn't that bad, but if the target file system isn't a fast writer, rsync will almost always still speed things up significantly (I know, because I do my backups with rsync on an USB stick). Cheers -- t
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