Re: tar on nfs freezes

2001-06-30 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Martin Maciaszek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 12:18:29AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: ... The freeze appeared after about 1 GB has been > > copied. > > We worked around it: cp -a does the same job and does not freeze. ) > > > For copying large abounts of data over

Re: tar on nfs freezes

2001-06-30 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: tar on nfs freezes Date: Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 04:06:38PM +0200 In reply to:Martin Maciaszek Quoting Martin Maciaszek([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 07:16:13AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > > What and where is 'nc'? >

Re: tar on nfs freezes

2001-06-30 Thread Martin Maciaszek
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 07:16:13AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > What and where is 'nc'? > > Neither 'man -k' nor 'apt-cache search' finds anything > for either 'nc' or 'netcat'. > Hmm, I'm not quite sure if it's only available in woody and sid. Apt-cache found netcat on my sid box. netcat - T

Re: tar on nfs freezes

2001-06-30 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 01:05:20PM +0200, Martin Maciaszek wrote: > For copying large abounts of data over the network I suggest > using a netcat tunnel. This works faster than scp and doesn't > need any network file systems. > > 1. On the destination system start netcat listening on an > arbitrar

Re: tar on nfs freezes

2001-06-30 Thread Martin Maciaszek
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 12:18:29AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > > > * Joerg Johannes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > Hello list > > > > > > My friend just bought a new HD, and wanted to throw out the old one. So > > > what we did was > > > - mount an nfs directo

Re: tar on nfs freezes

2001-06-29 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 10:28:17PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: > My friend just bought a new HD, and wanted to throw out the old one. So > what we did was > - mount an nfs directory from my server (/nfsroot) > - tar cplf - /root | (cd /nfsroot && tar xpf) > - threw the HD out > - started rescue sy

Re: tar on nfs freezes

2001-06-29 Thread Joerg Johannes
Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > * Joerg Johannes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > Hello list > > > > My friend just bought a new HD, and wanted to throw out the old one. So > > what we did was > > - mount an nfs directory from my server (/nfsroot) > > - tar cplf - /root | (cd /nfsroot && tar xpf) >

Re: tar on nfs freezes

2001-06-29 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Joerg Johannes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hello list > > My friend just bought a new HD, and wanted to throw out the old one. So > what we did was > - mount an nfs directory from my server (/nfsroot) > - tar cplf - /root | (cd /nfsroot && tar xpf) > - threw the HD out > - started rescue