On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 05:44:41PM -0700, Andy Ruhl wrote:
> 
> I tend to agree. Dump should work. If not, try tar. It's going to be
> slow no matter what you do though. Might be easier to just take the
> disk out and back it up on another machine.

It is usually faster to write a single data stream over a single TCP
connection.  So tar will beat NFS.

I'd setup a .rhosts file then:
slow$ tar -c -f- / | rsh fast cat \>archive_file

	David

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