In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:

>cd /; tar cf - / | (cd /mnt; tar xf - )
>
>this works fine but i get this timestamp messages:
>
>tar: Archive contains future timestamp 2001-09-16 20:33:45

One problem with this command is it will copy /mnt to /mnt/mnt to
/mnt/mnt/mnt ....

The -l option is one way to avoid this problem.  (It may even be
why you get the timestamp error -- the modified time of /mnt will be
after the tar started.)

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Blars Blarson                                   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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