Re: [cobalt-users] Tar help

["H.P. Stroebel" <hpstr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gunnar Gundersen schrieb:
> 
> I want to mirrior the qube disk.
> Using cp, all files will get root as owners, and that is no fun =)
> 
> So I figured out that tar would do the job, except that the tar file
> gets to big, and I get a broken pipe.
> I have heard that tar may be used as 'copy', compressing and extracting
> the files in one command line.
> (with 0% ration).
> Any one knows how this can be done?

raid might be a better solution for this. not easy to setup and handle,
though. read the linux-raid-howto.

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