I need to tar up a good 100 GiB of files, but tar is progressing at a rate of about 1 MiB per second. Is there something, anything, faster? Thanks! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com
On 01/06/2011 05:47 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:> I need to tar up a good 100 GiB of files, but tar is progressing at a > rate of about 1 MiB per second. Is there something, anything, faster?tar is normally screaming fast unless you use bzip2 compression (or gzip compression on an underpowered CPU). Provide details: What are you tarring, how are you invoking tar, what hardware are you running on (hard drive types, cpu type, etc). -- Benjamin Franz
On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 15:47 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:> I need to tar up a good 100 GiB of files, but tar is progressing at a > rate of about 1 MiB per second. Is there something, anything, faster?Yes, star. <http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/star.html> And it is in the CentOS repos. The "-fifo" option can help allot [and it backs up ACLS & xattrs too!].