Well, everything went fine, but as I could see node-tar need some more documentation.. Was kinda hard to find how to do the things in the "dark". The results of everything was that I created a package[1] that can natively tar.gz folders and untar.gz, so I don't have to code that all again :)
1 - https://github.com/cranic/node-tar.gz -- Att, Alan Hoffmeister 2012/12/6 Alan Hoffmeister <[email protected]> > Thanks Nathan, I'm testing it right now, I'll post some feedback. > > -- > Att, > Alan Hoffmeister > > > > 2012/12/5 Nathan Rajlich <[email protected]> > >> Well you could use node-tar[0] to create a tarball of the directory, >> and then use the zlib[1] module to compress the tarball using gzip. >> Essentially creating a .tar.gz in the end. >> >> [0]: https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar >> [1]: http://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/zlib.html >> >> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Alan Hoffmeister >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hello there, >> > >> > I'm working on a backup tool using Node.js, but I couldn't find any >> native >> > package that work with hight compression algos and folder compression. >> > >> > I need this because the script will run on Windows and Unix systems. >> > My preferences are xz (isn't it the official name for lzma2?), lzma, >> bzip2 >> > and gzip. >> > >> > Thanks! >> > -- >> > Att, >> > Alan Hoffmeister >> > >> > -- >> > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> > Posting guidelines: >> > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups "nodejs" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > [email protected] >> > For more options, visit this group at >> > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >> >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >> > > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
