> Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 19:09:14 -0400
> From: Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subj: tar question (was Re: nomore newbies??)
(snip)
>
> I'm trying to copy a directory tree from one mounted hard disk to
> another. I want to copy the contents of a directory named "backups" on
> a secondary SCSI HD to one of the same name on an external USB mass
> storage device.
>
> The source is /mnt/sdb1/storage/backups
> The target is /mnt/mirror/storage/
(snip)
> Root changes to the source "backups" directory and runs the
> following:
>
> tar cf - . | (cd ../../../mirror/storage/backups tar xvf -)
^^^^
semicolon missing ----^
If I see it correctly, what you are trying to do is to tar the files
in the source directory, copy it to the destination directory, and
then untar it. The question is why are you simply tar'ing without any
compression?
You should probably consider using the -z option (or --gzip) or -j
(--bzip) option.
Probably,
# s=/mnt/sdb1/storage/backups
# d=/mnt/mirror/storage
# cd $s
# tar cvjf - . | (cd $d; tar xjf -)
(or)
# tar cvzf - . | (cd $d; tar xzf -)
HTHs
anna
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