Well my backup script still works. Now I just want to tar a dir for
travel. Star is *much* faster than tar and I have star on *my* machine
but not on the machine I'm going to be putting it on. So I was wondering
if I'd be able to (un)tar it there. 

Carl P. 

On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 08:30, John (EBo) David wrote:
> Carl Parrish wrote:
> > 
> > I *think* what I want to do is this.
> > 
> > star -cv /some/dir
> > 
> > then
> > 
> > tar xvf someDir.tar
> > 
> > Only I wrote my script for back ups *months* ago. and there I'm s/tar
> > ing a /dev. So any suggestions would be more than welcome.
> 
> ok... you are doing something COMPLETELY different than I though
> <grumble... grumble... damned acronyms...> ;-)
> 
> KAssuming that you are using GNU tar, you might download the source and
> look at some of the scripts, examples, and tools therin...  As I recall
> there were some example backup scripts for automation.
> 
>   EBo --
> 
> 
> > On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 08:50, John (EBo) David wrote:
> > > Carl Parrish wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone know if I tar a directory up with star if i can then untar
> > > > it with tar?
> > >
> > > if I understand you correctly, yes, but to make sure we are all on the
> > > same page could you post as close to exactly the command line arguments
> > > are?
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