-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

David Laight wrote:
> 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
> 
Gentlemen,
I thank each of you for your recommendations.  Tar seemed to be a common theme
so I made a tar file, then FTP ed it to a faster computer where I gzipped it up.
Keep up the good work!
Good day,
	Glen
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32)

iD8DBQFDKVLXyducxzM8AoQRAp7EAKDKgBtOvtG8awCKs/BKN93oKOl3ngCfZVkx
WXTHNbd+Gp+FoezUtMe3TsI=
=W/i3
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----