"Michael D. Kirkpatrick" wrote:
>
> I have a 4 gig and a 27 gig hard drive on my web server. Everything is
> ran off of the 4 gig hard drive. The 27 gig hard drive is basically for
> storing daily backups (Up to 2 weeks worth).
>
> Is there a way to tell zip to treat all shortcuts (links) as only links,
> not as files and directories?
>
> Example, when I go to zip a directory that has multiple links it adds
> all the directories and files under the links as well. This makes for a
> rather large zip file since I can have 10-20 copies of directories and
> files because of all the links I have. I basically want to make mirror
> copy of a directory structure in a zip file. That way I can restore it
> in a directory on my 27 gig hard drive and move the necessary
> directories, sub directories, files, and links to the 4 gig hard drive
> (thus restoring what was messed up or lost).
>
> When I am done, I will have a zip file for each directory on the root
> level. That way I only would have to restore what I need. I need to be
> able to restore all the links as links, not as actual files and
> directories.
>
> If this is not possible with ZIP, could you possibly suggest a good free
> utility that I can use to accomplish this. I just want to use zip since
> I can also open the file on a windows based machine upon need and also
> for the space savings.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Mike
Don't know about zip, but you can do this with tar and tell it to
compress so you get a smaller archive (you hope) than the actual data.
Something like:
cd /27gig/week1backupdir
tar --same-owner -czvpf week1.gz /whateverdir /anotherdir /etc
Check out info tar. I don't remember if man tar has all the switches
and what they do. I believe p is the switch you want, but check the
docs.
