On 16:52 16 May 2002, Anand Buddhdev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 08:14:14AM -0600, Trevor wrote:
| > > I suggest you add the 'p' switch as well, to preserve permissions and
| > > ownerships. That is, after all, the problem Jim is trying to solve.
[...]
| > If you do a tar
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 10:56:23AM -0400, Timothy Lee Young wrote:
> just a quick sideline to this thread...
>
> if you tar zcvf a director, will it compress a copy of the directory or
> does it take the actual directory and compress it, leaving behind nothing
> but the file?
tar _first_ create
just a quick sideline to this thread...
if you tar zcvf a director, will it compress a copy of the directory or
does it take the actual directory and compress it, leaving behind nothing
but the file?
if it does, what is the correct option to just create a compressed file of
a directory without c
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 08:14:14AM -0600, Trevor wrote:
> > I suggest you add the 'p' switch as well, to preserve permissions and
> > ownerships. That is, after all, the problem Jim is trying to solve.
> >
> > tar -zcvpf /path/to/name_of_the_file.tar.gz /var/www (to
> > compress and archive)
> >
>
> I suggest you add the 'p' switch as well, to preserve permissions and
> ownerships. That is, after all, the problem Jim is trying to solve.
>
> tar -zcvpf /path/to/name_of_the_file.tar.gz /var/www (to
> compress and archive)
> tar -zxvpf /path/to/name_of_the_file.tar.gz(to restore from
>
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 content
On 22:48 15 May 2002, Jim Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| I got to use half of it tonight - hopefully I won't need the OTHER half
It would be wise to _test_ the other half.
Disaster recovery time is _not_ the time you want to find out the first half
wasn't done right.
Cheers,.
--
Cameron Simp
nard B. Fernando
> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 10:18 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Archiving Folders
>
>
> to compress: tar -zcvf name_of_the_file.tar.gz *
> to uncompress: tar -zxvf name_of_the_file.tar.gz
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "J
Jim Hale wrote:
>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 backin
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
Su
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 ot
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