Hello Robert and all, Because CD's are cheap I burned the michael.tar file to a CD.
I did as you, Robert, suggested to create a text file of the contents of the michael.tar file to michael-tar.txt and successfully got the contents listed in a text file about 36000 lines long. So, because CD's are cheap, I burned michael-tar.txt to another CD. I know such a short file is a waste of a burned CD, but hey, CD's are cheaper than floppies. Thanks Nick for all your help too. I have now successfully burned a michael.tar CD and a michael-tar.txt CD. And when I put the michael.tar CD in my CD drive and looked at the contents, I saw that .kde and .mozilla and their subdirectories are on my CD. So presumably my back up CD's are complete enough to restore my data files, c programs, and thunderbird address book and filter configurations if I reinstall libranet 3.0. If I presumed wrong, please let me know. I will not reinstall libranet 3.0 until I know my backup CD's are complete and accurate. I did not have time to read all the 36000 lines in michael-tar.txt, but what I scanned through seemed OK to me. Thanks and regards to all those who helped me, including Robert Campbell and Rick Wiltshire, Michael Walters ___________________________________________________________________ Robert Campbell wrote: >creating an uncompressed tar file of your entire home directory, >including dot files and directories should be as easy >as > tar cvf /tmp/michael.tar ~ > >notice we are tarring the entire home directory, not just some of the >files in it. >viewing the contents of the .tar file and putting the results into a >text file should be > > tar tvf /tmp/michael.tar > /tmp/michael-tar.txt > >using gzip compression should be as easy as > > tar zcvf /tmp/michael.tar.gz ~ > >and getting the contents of this file are similar to the above >instruction except for the "z" flag and the gz extension > > tar ztvf /tmp/michael.tar.gz > /tmp/michael-tar-gz.txt > >Hope this helps > >On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 07:58 -0700, Michael Walters wrote: > > > >>Hello Nick, >> >>I successfully tarred my home directory without compression in >>michael.tar with a size of 207943680 bytes which should easily be burned >>to a 700 Meg CD. >> >>Thank you for your detailed instructions which worked beautifully. >> >>My friend at the CCNA told me a command I could use to get a text file >>containing a list of contents in michael.tar. >> >>I want to get that list put in a text file (with the txt extension) so >>that I can check to see whether everything is there. >> >>I also want to see whether the configuration .kde directories and tiles >>and the .mozilla directories and files are saved to the michael.tar file. >> >>The reason I want the .kde directories and files and .mozilla >>directories and files is that I want to be able to restore my mozilla >>thunderbird address book and filters and need the configuration files to >>be backed up. >> >>I likewise was told by my friend at the CCNA I need the .kde >>configuration files. >> >>If everything checks out I will burn the michael.tar file to the CD. >> >>If I have to burn the .kde files and directories and .mozilla files and >>directories separately to another CD that is all right because CD's are >>cheap. But I do want to back up my .mozilla configuration files so that >>I do not lose my thunderbird address book. I do not remember why I >>should save my .kde configuration files too, but it would not hurt to do so. >> >> >>Thanks again for all your help. Once I do the last couple of steps >>listed above I will burn the michael.tar file to a CD. >> >>Regards, >> >>Michael Walters >> >>_________________________________________________________________________________ >> >> >>Nick Wiltshire wrote: >> >> >> >>>The command to tar & gzip is: >>> >>>tar -zcf /tmp/michael.tgz /home/michael >>>(then burn the file /tmp/michael.tgz to CD) >>> >>>without compression, remove the z option: >>> >>>tar -cf /tmp/michael.tar /home/michael >>> >>>add the v option to either command for verbose output, but note the f option >>>must come LAST: >>> >>>tar -zvcf /tmp/michael.tgz /home/michael >>> >>>to scroll help: >>> >>>tar --help | less >>> >>>or >>> >>>man tar >>> >>>to decompress later: >>> >>>tar -zxvf michael.tgz /wherever/you/want >>> >>>or if you didn't use compression above: >>> >>>tar -xvf michael.tar /wherever/you/want >>> >>>Happy tar-ing :) >>> >>> >>>On Monday 14 November 2005 11:43 pm, Michael Walters wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>Michael Walters wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>Thanks Nick and everyone else, >>>>> >>>>>I did a du -h /home/michael and found I am using 181M in /home/michael >>>>> >>>>>I did a du -h /tmp and got 17K used in /tmp. >>>>> >>>>>Since my usage in /home/michael was only 181M I should be able to put >>>>>all of my home directory on a 700M CD as 181M is far less than 700M. >>>>> >>>>>I was told that I could tar the current directory by doing tar . by a >>>>>fellow I met at the Calgary Community Network Association. I am going to >>>>>try that out now and will tell you how it goes. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>I tried tar . and got an error message of tar . invalid operation try >>>>tar --help. I tried tar --help and a number of lines went by, only the >>>>last of which I could read. I have forgotten how to scroll through a >>>>help file. >>>> >>>>Regards, >>>> >>>>Michael again >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>Regards, >>>>> >>>>>Michael Walters >>>>> >>>>>__________________________________________ >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
