WINZIP can read tar files...
and they make tar for windoze also...
my $02
Audrey Beck wrote:
> "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.
