GNU tar creates and manipulates archives which are actually collections of many other files; the program provides users with an organized and systematic method for controlling a large amount of data.
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Can I get tar to not use the filesystem cache when reading files?
We have a cronned job on a production web server that requires tarring up files from across the filesystem. It runs for about 105 minutes, and during that time, Apache starts swapping because all ...
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How to tar into a directory. [duplicate]
I would like to be able to tar all of my files so that when the are extracted they're in a sub directory I have specified. For example if I have File1 File2 and File3 inside of my current directory I ...
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Creating tar from the files within the specific date range
I'm having trouble with getting my data from my shared hosting.
I've approximately 20 GB folder that contains about 40.000 images.
I tried archive that folder by splitting archive files:
tar -cvpj ...
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TAR from dir into 'tar root'
I was looking for an answer, I thought I found it, but it doesn't work correctly :-S
Question: I want to pack: /foo/bar/dir/* but when I unpack the tar I would like to have /dir/*
So i thought:
1) ...
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find and delete files of a certain type inside a tar.gz file
Is there a way to not only find but also delete any .gz files inside a .tar.gz file? I found this link but I wouldn't know how to modify it to make it able to delete found files.
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Linux backup using tar
Im new to linux backup.
Im thinking of full system backup of my linux server using tar.
I came up with the following code:
tar -zcvpf /archive/fullbackup.tar.gz
--exclude=/archive
--exclude=/mnt
...
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Deduplication of tar archives
Now I'm trying to configure ZFS with deduplication on my linux backup server and have a question.
For example I have 1k files in backup1.tar and 1k same files and 1 new in backup2.tar. This files ...
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how to tar or zip two sibling folders and avoid an extra top level folder when extracting
I have a need to create a tar of two sibling folders and send it to a client for extraction on their Mac OS desktop by double-clicking it. yes, that's a requirement of theirs.
so I go:
cd ~/Desktop
...
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Why does `tar -xvfz` fail, but `tar xvfz` work?
tar -xvfz foo.tar.gz returns an error tar: z: Cannot open: No such file or directory
This is completely understandable - the f switch expects a filename, and so needs to be last.
However, omitting ...
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Using SFTP client to TAR files instead of terminal [closed]
Whenever I SSH into terminal, I always seem to screw something up. It would be a lot simpler if I was able to zip/tar files using an FTP application - does this exist?
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How to find files of certain extension and tar each of them in to another location
I have script for finding files of certain type and compress them to a single tar archive and put in to other place. But now, there is a change in requirement, that I need to find files of certain ...
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Ran out of disk space, how to tar without creating copy
I am at 98% of an 8GB SSD, and I have a 3 GB mysql data that I need to gzip and or tar and then download it, so then I can delete it.
How can I tar or gzip the sql (or the mysql tables) so that that ...
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SSH: connect with public key avoiding passphrase prompt
root@myhost:/# ssh -i /opt/id_rsa.pub azureuser@myhost2.cloudapp.net
Enter passphrase for key '/opt/id_rsa.pub':
azureuser@myhost2.cloudapp.net's password:
I have created key pair without ...
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Strategy for backing up a very large website (~40GB)
I have a website which works with lots and lots of text files - now they take up about 40 GB of data and increasing over time. I need to make a full daily backup. My current strategy is to make a ...
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Linux: Gnu-Tar Excludes
I'm trying to perform a full backup of a Linux server using GNU-Tar. The file system looks like this:
├── backup
├── data
│ ├── d1
│ ├── d2
│ └── tmp
│ ├── tt1
│ ├── tt2
│ └── ...
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FTP performance 15x slower for tar files of binary vs. text?
We're running some 1GB FTP file transfer tests in advance of a larger 40GB transfer and seeing 15x slower performance (450kB/s vs. 7Mb/s) when the 1GB test tar file is composed of small (<100k) ...
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How to tar folders with specific letter
I have a long list of folders. i want tar only folder which starts with "a". How can i do that?
Actually, I am having photo gallery website, which has 1000s of folders. I wish to move another server ...
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tar leading period slash
tar czf dist.tgz --exclude=".gitignore" .
This creates files in tar with leading "./" which later turns to problem when server needs to extract parts of tar.
Could someone tell me how to pack it ...
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FreeBSD restore of /rescue
I'm running a restore from a previous backup of my FreeBSD system, and run into trouble when restoring / (excluding mount-points). The problem is that /rescue fills the / partition (to the extent that ...
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0answers
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tar files sorted by size to a tape
I'm configuring a tape backup of some directories and i'm wondering if it could be a good idea to store them sorted by size.
My idea is if I have to restore some file and the file are save ...
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Accident from tar -cvf, recover original file? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible to recover filed removed by rm in linux?
I'm using a RHEL6 server RAID10 with a ext4 fs, with a volumeGroup (lvm2) VolGroup00 created on a PV /dev/sda5 ...
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Gzip command to produce exact same output than tar -cvzf?
I did thought the following commands where equivalent, but they produce different checksums:
tar -cvzf ... and tar -cvf ...; gzip ... does not produce the same output.
sha1sumdiffers.
What would be ...
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1answer
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create log for an encrypted tar
I want to create an encrypted tar but also I want to have a log of what tar has compressed, I'm using the following command:
tar -cvvf - --files-from=/root/backup.cfg | openssl des3 -salt -k ...
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moving files and directories between two machine, via a third, preserving permissions and usernames
The situation is as follows:
Machine A has a file repository accessible via rsync
Machine B needs
the above mentioned files with all permissions and ownerships intact
(including groups etc)
...
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MySQL Upgrade RPM
I have a centos5.5 system and have MySQL 5.0.27 install. Now I want to upgrade this to MySQL 5.5.28(Latest). I have two questions,
What is the difference between RPM(Redhat) which is recommended and ...
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How do I untar multiple archives from tape?
I have a tape with multiple tar files on it. I do not know how many (it was created by a third party and sent to me with minimal information). How do I untar all the files without having to repeat the ...
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4answers
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Does tar preserve permissions if user IDs change?
I need to backup some data with the "p" option on tar command. The problem is the place I'm going to restore this data will have all the same users, but those users may have different IDs. Does that ...
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Is there a way for tar to check for new files not in an archive?
Is there a way to for the tar command to check for new files that are not already in the archive, or those that have been deleted (for good measure)?
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tar + tar not open all files
When I want to view the following tar file , then tar show the following three files
from /var/tmp
tar tvf fix.tar
install.sh
/usr/cti/apps/swp/dir/script1.sh
...
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2answers
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Not possible to extract tar.gz archive in Centos
I have just uploaded tar.gz archive to my Centos server from my home Windows 7 computer. Before that, it was extracted from .zip archive.
When I try to extract it:
tar -xvf file.tar.gz
gunzip ...
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Issues while untaring in Linux- tarball created from Solaris
I am getting an error- "Unknown file type 'A', extracted as normal file"
while un-taring a set of files which has acl permissions set.
I had created the tar file in solaris as tar -cpfv ...
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Is it really impossible to prepend data to a tape?
I would like to keep a log of files that I am writing to tape using dd or tar for each file. Then at the end of the run, prepend that log to the beginning of the tape using dd. If it works, I can see ...
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Copy directory structure from Solaris preserving all the permissions and links
I am looking to copy a directory structure with Files, I am not looking for content a 0 byte file will do.
I just need to copy the directory tree with 0 byte files and links preserving the properties ...
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Installing multiple mysql as rpm vs tarball
Which is the suitable way to install multiple mysql servers without affecting the current installation in fedora( rpm or tarball)?
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resumable tar over ssh
I'd like to use tar cf - | ssh user@hostname tar xf - to copy a very large set of files. The only problem is that it will be over a very flakey VPN link. Is it possible to somehow set up a resumable ...
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Tar dereference only 1 level
I use the following pseudo-script to create a TAR of my installed software
mkdir tmp
ln -s /path/to/app1/bin tmp/app1
ln -s /and/path/going/to/the-app-2 tmp/app2
tar -c --dereference ...
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What would be the outcome of tar and untar a constantly changing folder via ssh
I have used this command on a big-sized (TB),constant changing directory with sub-folders and files.
$ tar c dir/* |gzip - | ssh user@host 'cd /dir/ && tar xz'
What would be the outcome at ...
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Absolute recursive tar without parent directories?
I have a directory structure that looks something like this:
/var/www/website/index.php
/var/www/website/home.php
/var/www/website/whatever.text
/var/www/website/.htaccess
/var/www/website/images/
...
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Determine if file is in the process of being written upon?
I need to deploy an automated process (via 1 min cron script) that looks for tar files in a specific directory. If a tar file is found, it is untarred to the appropriate location and then the tar file ...
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Backing up file moves with rsync + tar
I have a mirroring system in place with rsync and it works well. However, moving a file causes it to be transferred again in its entirety.
Given what I know about the rsync algorithm's rolling ...
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Cannot set target directory when extracting an archive using tar
I'm trying to extract a tar archive to a specific directory. I've tried using -C flag but it doesn't work as expected. Here is the commandline I'm using
tar xvf myarchive.tar -C mydirectory/
This ...
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tar over ssh to IPv6 host
I want to tar to a remote host using the remote host's IPv6 address. I can ssh and scp to the host but GNU tar does not accept the IPv6 address.
I tried:
tar -cjvf ...
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Changing tar parameters
I'd like to change the command I'm actualy using to put files in a tar archive in order to achieve this:
1) Remove directories tree from the archive (actually the .tar.gz file mantains the tree of ...
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Run command to untar file in timestamped folder?
I have a .tar file that is transferred to our server every night by one of our client management systems. The file is a compressed .sql file which I need to uncompress and dump into our database.
The ...
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How to unpack specific directory from /home backup packed with pigz+tar+gzip
Normally I'm extracting my copies with:
pigz -dc backup2_week1_system.tar.gz | tar xzvf -
Now I want to unpack specific directory from /home/user for example admin
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tar gzip slowing down server
I have a backup script that:
compress some files
generate md5
copy the compressed file to another server.
the other server finishes comparing MD5 (to find copy errors).
Here it's the core script:
...
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Combine two or more compressed files
I have 2 gz files those I need to merge into one -- that is to say I want to combine two .gz files into one such that when I extract the combined file I get a single file containing the concatenation ...
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copy files with folders [closed]
The following scp is working as expected.
scp /home/admin/* root@ec2-50-112-212-73:/
But I need a command that will create the required folder structure on destination server if it does not already ...
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Ultrium 3 tape drive shoe-shining, 3Mb/s: and it's not the cable
I have a HP 960 Ultrium 3 tape drive. Since I got it, (second hand, £90) I've been experiencing shoe-shining. Writing with tar in Linux, I average about 3Mb/s write speed. I've tried replacing both ...
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linux/solaris when to use tar or gtar
is it possible to know when need to use tar or gtar according to tar file
for example
I have some tar file as
sometarfile.tar
how to know if need to use tar or gtar command ?
is it possible ...
