[NMLUG] Linux GHOST?

[Wesley J Landaker]

On Monday 26 January 2004 11:10 am, Steve Browne wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 10:44:43 -0700, you wrote:
> >tar cpvf - --exclude '/proc/*' --exclude '/mnt/newdisk/*' / | tar
> > xpvf - -C /mnt/newdisk

> Also because tarring assumes you have the space to store the interim
> tarball, however temporary, and you might not. As I understand it.
> You aren't going to store 20+Gb in RAM.

FWIW, in the above example, the tar "files" are live streams: no 
significant temporary storage (RAM or otherwise) is required.

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Wesley J. Landaker - wjl at icecavern.net
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