hi, actually, I use the tar utility to backup my fedora box to a file... After a full backup file is reach near 8GB, and when I want to restore some backuped files, it take veeerrrryyy long time (more than 1h30) to analyse/index the file and extract the needed folders. Is there a way to speed up the restore process with any options to tar, or, any other command utility to use for my backup. Thanks for your help. -- Guillaume