James ... You could 'dd' into 'gzip' to save bandwidth, but that will burn expensive zSeries CPU cycles.
If you can 'tar' the stuff (with or without the GZip flag depending on whether you want to save bandwidth or save CPU) then you'll only get the *content* and not all those unused blocks. How many filesystems in this volume? Just one or two? Make that two 'tar' runs, each flagged to stay in one FS. This way, when you "untar" at the receiving end you can fit it all into a smaller volume. -- R; ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
