Re: System unresponsitive when copying HD/HD

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Delta wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I backup my linux partition once a month from my second IDE drive to an
> empty partition
> on the first IDE disk. I have about 2.8 Gig to copy, and I use <cp -ax /
> /mnt/hd> to do the copy.
> 

# cd / ; nice -n 20 tar -clf - . | (cd /mnt/hd; tar -xpf -)

Will probably do what you want.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

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