On Thu, 19 May 2005 10:38 pm, Voytek wrote: > <quote who="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> > > > tar jcf filename.tar.bz2 file1 file2...fileN > > thanks, Amos, that works good, > what the correct way to reconstitute with full path ?
cd /base/of/target/tree tar jxf filename.tar.bz2 man tar tar c == create tar tar x == extract tar tar j == use bzip2 compression (tar z == gzip compression) tar f == target to archive/unpack is a file So, tar jcf foo.tar.bz2 file1 file2 will create a tar file called "foo.tar.bz2" which is compressed with bzip2 compression, and conmtains file1 and file2. Substitue "c" with "x" to eXtract the archive. Have a read of the tar man page. Once you get up to speed on things, you might want to try weird stuff like: tar cf - /path/to/dir | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "gzip - > /some/remote/dir/backup.tgz" Try to see if you can figure out what all that does and, more importantly, WHY :) (You'll need to read the ssh man page too probably). Have fun, James -- "Luke, I'm yer father, eh. Come over to the dark side, you hoser." -- Dave Thomas, "Strange Brew" -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
