On 2017-12-27 14:53, Alex Pilon wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 08:19:04AM -0500, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > I'd be using rsync -vaP so that subsequent updates are faster, but tar zcvf
>
> Also add -H, -A, and -X. These aren't just edge cases!
Sure... but my home directory hasn't ever had any of these, so it wasn't an
issue. I have used -x though...
> > might be faster due to compression...
>
> How would compression help when it's on the same host? You can't
> decompress after the bus. Do you mean to store the data compressed?
Yeah, stored compressed...
> Sounds more like you just want to use CPIO's passthrough mode. No need
> to serialize and deserialize data.
slainte mhath, RGB
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