speaking of tar, is it possible to backup to a tape directly by piping tar
to gzip and piping that to the tape device?  My idea is to get the
compressed backup to the tape without writing the uncompressed tar file to
disk.

Thanks

Ryan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Phillips [mailto:david at acz.org]
> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 8:03 PM
> To: TCLUG Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Testing SMP Kernel
> 
> 
> Richard Hoffbeck writes:
> > Doing a compressed tar archive on /usr should load up both 
> processors
> > pretty well.
> 
> tar runs in a single process, so it will only run on one CPU 
> at a time.
> 
> -- 
> David Phillips <david at acz.org>
> http://david.acz.org/
> 
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