Re: tar

From: Doug Freyburger (dfreybur_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/29/04 

Date: 29 Sep 2004 11:14:24 -0700

William S. Perrin wrote:
>
> Anyway to make this go faster?
> tar cf - oracle/ | remsh pluto "cd /; tar pvxf -"
> Native HPUX tar, cpio can't handle 2GB files.

Dump and restore can handle large files, and they run slightly
faster than tar. Others have mentioned gzip to compress the
data stream, that should be a "z" in the tar command once you
switch from the HPUX native one to the GNU one.

> Could I use bigger BLOCK size??

There's a pipe in your command. Pipes are inherently
unblocked. Your question is meaningless in this context.

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