tar cf - /path-to-be-archived | gzip -c > /new/place/to store-file.tar.gz
Note that this will take a while, too. Hopefully the system won't stop, though. You might consider running this command with at, say "at 1am" or so, and just let it run for a few hours (days?). At will run the command with a "nice" priority. hth, Elizabeth Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to move large amounts of data from one disk to another and then > tar it up for back up purposes. I have tried cp and mv, but both take > very large amounts of time with many ide resets and faults. The amount > of data I am trying to copy is somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 to 15 > gigs. It is going from a fat32 fs to an ext2 fs. I also notice that > when I use cp, my system grinds to a halt and the cp comand doesnt do > much. From what I am guessing is happening is that it fills up its > buffers in main memory, then doesnt flush it to the disk. If I stop the > command and issue a flush then the system starts working again. But if > I dont issue a flush the system remains in that stalled state for like a > minute. I am not completely sure how to best copy this large amount of > data over, but I would like any ideas. > > I have 384mb of ram and am copying from an ATA 66 drive to a ATA 100 > drive with a celeron 800mgh.
