This worked because the MBR, partition table, and file systems were intact. What you were doing was a simple file copy (tar can preserve file permissions) so that the only real obstacle was disk I/O.
If you have a more serious failure, a simple tar will not be enough. On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Mac <[email protected]> wrote: > tar has been around for as long as *ux. > > So it's had plenty of time to mature. > > As with many of the vintage *ux cammand line utilities it can be cryptic > and not necessarily intuitive to use. > > Mac > > On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 01:44 +0200, Ralf wrote: >> Does anybody know something about tar? >> >> Very interesting, I deleted a broken Maverick-Natty-Upgrade-Install by >> # rm -r *, then I copied a backup archive and restored Maverick from the >> backup by tar xzf *, restoring Maverick takes between 3 and 4 minutes >> only. >> >> How is this possible? >> >> The restored Maverick seems to be ok, at least Email etc. is ok, the >> size, 6.76 GiB is correct. >> >> An amazing voodoo trick. >> >> I didn't know that it's that fast. >> >> > > > > -- > Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users > -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
