Dear forum,
What I wanted to do is backup my home directory and install 10.04 (I had 9.04) and then restore the home directory. My home dir was about 150 GBytes. I ran the command below
Code:
tar --use-compress-program=lzop -cf homeDir.tar.lzop /home/user
I then ran
Code:
lzop -t homeDir.tar.lzop
to test it and it tested out fine. It compressed it down to about 110 GBytes. I copied the file off the machine and installed 10.04.
On the new system I copied the file on and first decompressed it using this command
Code:
lzop -x homeDir.tar.lzop
and it gave me the file
homeDir.tar.
I'm now trying to untar the file but everything seems to hang. Right now I'm executing
Code:
time tar --extract homeDir.tar
and it's just sitting there. I copied the tar file off onto another system and it's doing the same thing. I've let this thing run now for about 3 hours with no change.
I know archive the files might add some overhead but it only took me an hour to archive and compress it to begin with. Add to that I transfered the uncompressed in an hour. At this rate it would have made more sense to scp the files over directly. Why would it take this long to unarchive this file?
Any thoughts appreciated.
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