Tar tricks on Linux

Posted by linuxaria on Jan 3, 2011 1:24 AM EDT
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I recently had to move from one machine to another about 50 GB of data, divided into hundreds of thousands of small files, and i had no additional space on the machine to make a zipped tar and then move it comfortably, I tried a scp, but after 45 minutes it had moved around 2 GB of data, too slow. And so I started looking at the options a bit more advanced of tar.

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