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I’m trying to tar up a folder with several thousand files in it via ssh, however it keeps freezing every 30 seconds or so until I send a random keystroke to the ssh window then it resumes again, how can I run the tar command so that it runs properly without freezing like this?
Solved it:
nohup tar -zcvf filename.tar.gz path/to/tar &