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.) -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html "Text is a way we cheat time." -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden