[conspire] PING (Partimage Is Not Ghost) -- Backup and Restore Disk Partitions

[Eric De MUND]

Rick,

Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>:
] You might consider:
]
] $ ( cd dir && tar Scpf - . ) | ( cd /mnt/somewhere && tar Sxvpf - )
]
] The "&&" is because you really don't _want_ the tar command to proceed
] unless the related "cd" works. The "S" means handle sparse files effi-
] ciently. "p" is preserve permissions. "v" is verbose reporting.

Learned something new today; I've used this tar idiom before, but I've
never seen this "S" flag before. Thanks!

Eric
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