[NMLUG] Linux GHOST?

[Steve Browne]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 16:31:01 -0700, you wrote:

>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.

Then I don't see the purpose, in this case, of "tarring" at all. Why
not a live stream without the compression/decompression?

Steve
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