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    Newbie Webdude is just really niceWebdude is just really niceWebdude is just really nice
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    I doubt anyone will really know the answer to this, but maybe I will get lucky.

    I am trying to move Worldzone.net to another server, but cant seem to do it. If I try to tar /home, or even so much as just one catagory, it ends up with a "Broken Pipe" error. What the heck is that??

    If I try to zip, it goes for a while and then suddenly it just says "Killed". What would be killing it?? I cant find anything doing it..
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    anti-liberal keith is an unknown quantity at this point keith's Avatar
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    i don't know, but whatever you've tried up to this point, it's blanked out the database in my directory and i lost all my forums.

    ah well... looks like i'd better starting downloading the entire site and be ready to reupload everything when the switch finally does happen.
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    Code:
    tar -cvf <file.tar> <directory you want to tar>
    gzip file.tar
    there you go....

    OR... if you are using this method, it might be that the process is timing out or something. Like do it in smaller chunks (?)

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    Newbie Webdude is just really niceWebdude is just really niceWebdude is just really nice
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    I figured it out...at least no probs so far. Evidently you will get a "Broken Pipe" error if you try to compress across drives. I was compressing directories from /home and having it build the compression on /home3. Finally I just moved all catagories to /home3 and am compressing them on the same drive....and no problems yet..

    Might be a good thing to remember huh? LOL...and it only took me about 50 hours to figure that out..so you can compress across partitions so long as those partitions are all on the same drive.
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    make sure you gzip --best, it takes a little longer, but saves you time when youre downloading or transferring it.

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    Or use bz2 for much better compression...

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    How about RK? When I looked at the statistics, it almost always came on top in terms of compression. But when you see its speed, it's slower.
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