to compress: tar -zcvf name_of_the_file.tar.gz * to uncompress: tar -zxvf name_of_the_file.tar.gz
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Hale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mailing List - Red Hat (Co)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 11:11 AM Subject: Archiving Folders > How would I compress/archive a set of folders into one file? > > I mean, what I'd like to do is archive the COMPLETE contents of my > /var/www folder (including all folders, subfolders, users/groups, > read/write access etc) so that I can copy the file to another machine > for backing up to tape with my other stuff. > > I have been using Samba to map to the folder, but when I copy stuff over > to my Win2K backup machine, if something crashes on the Linux box and I > have to copy stuff back, I'm having to reset user/groups and their > permissions to the folders and files. > > I want a file that I can copy back to the Linux box, un-archive (with > paths) so that everything is back to normal in a minimum amount of time. > > I used to do stuff like this with the DOS version of PkZip many moons > ago. > > Thanks! > > Jim Hale > --- > Jim & Kathy's Website Collection > http://hale.dyndns.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
