Niall Litchfield schrieb: > I figured this list would be a good place to ask.I had recently to tar a > (15g) directory tree on Linux for transfer to a new host. The tree had a > rather large number of log and trace files that we didn't wish to move. > No problem build an exclusion list and use > > tar -X <file> -cpvzf <tarfile> <directory> > > I killed this after 10 hours. I then removed the old log and trace files > saving about 1gb of space only and created a new (blank) exclusion list > > tar -X <file> -cpvf <tarfile> <directory> > > took 40 mins. Is this likely to be a side effect of removing compression > (the server was pretty much idle apart from me so I didn't expect the > cpu cycles to be an issue) or of having a ludicrously large exclusion > list. most likely due compression, it runs sequential. i usually use pbzip2 for compressing large amount of data. pbzip2 runs parallel and saves a lot of time. if you prefer gzip, use pigz. regards, -ap -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l