[BBLISA] Rsync Backup - The Continuing Conversation...

[Edward Ned Harvey]

> 	tar cf - /path/to/NFS/dir | dd of=/dev/null
> 
> The pipe is to force tar to NOT realize it's writing to /dev/null and
> just complete quickly.

Hey - I really like that!

I have been very upset with tar before, when I did "tar cf - . > /dev/null" only to have it complete instantly.

Why would you ever want to crawl the filesystem and throw it away?  To crawl the filesystem, duh.   ;-)  Prove I can, and measure how long it takes.