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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Quickest way to transfer 55GB of images to new server
I currently have two CentOS servers. I need to know how and what the quickest way would be to "tar" up the images directory and SCP it over?
Is that the quickest way that I just suggested, because ...
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Can I extract a specific folder using tar to another folder?
I am new to the world of Linux and seem to have run into a stumbling block. I know I can extract a specifc archive using the command tar xvfz archivename.tar.gz sampledir/ however how can I extract ...
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“tar cfz” versus “tar cf - | gzip”: are they different? (or how to improve a backup)
I want to speed up my backup done with tar cfz, the common way to do it. But day by day my backed up files grow so it becomes slower.
I was thinking to take advantage of the several cores available ...
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Backup - rsync or tar
We're looking to backup about 100gb+ of data containing small files (10kb+) each. The backup needs to be done as fast as possible to another harddrive weekly. Which is the better (especially speed ...
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Tar: avoid archiving of files larger than certain size
I want to archive files (with tar) which are below 3 MB in size. But I also want to retain the directories in which those files exist. (so I cannot use find command). I just want to avoid the files ...
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How do you only tar files in a directory based on a specific file name?
I want to create a tar ball and include only the files in the directory that start with a specific filename. For instance I have apples-x.x.x and oranges-x.x.x, and I only want to tar the files ...
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Compress every file in a directory into its own compressed file
How do I compress every file in a directory into its own tar whilst preserving the name for each file?
i.e.
file1.out
file2.out
-->
file1.out.tar.gz
file2.out.tar.gz
