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Old 02-03-2004, 10:24 PM   #1
Bob Ross
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How do I have tar skip files already on destination HD?


I'm not terribly familiar with linux. I've been looking through the man pages without much luck. Is there a tar command that skips already restored file on a drive? My backup is huge and I keep getting segmentation fault. I'd like to continue where I left off, not an hour back only to get another segmentation fault.

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Old 02-04-2004, 12:13 AM   #2
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From the tar man page:

-k, --keep-old-files
keep existing files; don't overwrite them from
archive

-K, --starting-file F
begin at file F in the archive
 
Old 02-04-2004, 12:43 PM   #3
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Alright! It worked! Thank you so much!
 
  


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