On Friday 04 January 2008 11:54:03 am Guillaume wrote: > 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. I don't think there's any easy solution for this besides creating smaller tar files. You can try this shell-script which is the one I use to create individual 8GB tar files (in order to burn them on dual-layer media): http://www.informatik-vollmer.de/software/split-tar.php It's called "split-tar". Before using this tool I created a big 80GB tar file and then I used the split command to split it in 8GB chunks...the problem with that was that when I needed to restore something from my DVD's I had to restored all 10 DVD's to a directory and then perform cat xa* > bigFile.tar Split-tar came to the rescue...as it can create individual tar files with the approximate size I specify.... Anyway..you didn't specify your backup medium. If it's another drive...why not just copy the files (without archiving them)? This is what I do (night backups to my 2nd drive via a shell script). You can use rsync and many other tools... When I backup to optical media that's then I use tar...(because I want to preserver ownership/permission bits...). HTH, Jorge
