terrific, thanks guys

Its been delayed to tomorrow now, Ill let you know how it went.....

ps. its been delayed due to windows problems (the newish box current has 
NT) :) something about not being able to remove a service from Win NT and 
some upgrade barfing - I choose not to understand :D


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> ----- Forwarded by Richard Meyer/Australia/Contr/IBM on 03/01/2003 11:58 
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>                       03/01/2003 11:29 
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> >On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 10:42:39AM +0800, Richard Meyer wrote:
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> >| Now, I don't have access to a *nix* machine at work, but it goes
> something
> >| like this
> >| tar cvfz / | tar xvfz   (but I strongly suggest you look thru the man
> pages
> >| to prevent the second hard drive from being tarred too, and being 
passed
> >| thru to the extract side.)
> 
> >Try 'tar clf - / | tar xpf -'; the compression will just slow
> >things down and the 'p' helps to preserve permissions and such.  'l'
> >forces tar to stay in one file system, which means that /proc and such
> >don't mess things up.
> 
> >CP.
> 
> ;)  Yes, that's what I meant by suggesting he read the man pages. Also if
> he compresses it, the pipe needn't be so big *vbg*. But you are right 
the z
> option will just slow it down - habit, I guess. Knew there was an option 
to
> force tar to stay in the filesystem, but forgot what it was - also forgot
> about the 'p' option - thanks.
> 
> Cheers
> RichardM
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