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From: seth@megad.UUCP (Seth H Zirin)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: TAR(1) fs copy
Message-ID: <199@megad.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 09:48:04 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  2 09:48:04 1985
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I regularly use the following command line to copy entire filesystems of
20 Meg and more (minus the /dev directory of course) from one disk to another
and it works just fine:

	tar cf - SOME-LIST-OF-STUFF | (cd NEWDIR ; tar xvf - )

If I try to run it in the background (at least on a Uniplus+ SV machine)
with the command line below, it hangs infinitely (until I KILL(1) it a few
minutes later).

	(tar cf - SOME-LIST-OF-STUFF | (cd NEWDIR ; tar xvf - )) &

Now I've added my two cents (or two command lines) to the discussion.
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