22 Aug
2003
22 Aug
'03
8:15 a.m.
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Girish Hanchate wrote:
It is taking lot of time to restore the files .I think when i am tring to restore any file it serially reads all files prior to files i want to take backup so it
It has to first uncompress the entire archive before it can extract any file. Remember that tar and gzip are two separate programs. The output of one is piped to the other. tar -z internally calls gzip, and continues only when it receives output from it.
Philip
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