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GNU tar creates and manipulates archives which are actually collections of many other files; the program provides users with an organized and systematic method for controlling a large amount of data.

GNU tar creates and manipulates archives which are actually collections of many other files; the program provides users with an organized and systematic method for controlling a large amount of data. The name “tar” originally came from the phrase “Tape ARchive”, but archives need not (and these days, typically do not) reside on tapes.

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Using Crontab to tar a directory at a regular interval

I want to tar a directory at a regular interval (say every morning at 4am) so I was planning on using crontab. How can I have the date be in the filename ie srcdirectorybackup5-30-09.tar so that I can differentiate between all of the tar files.
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Returning A List Of Quoted Files Paths Using Find

I would like to create a tarball that contains files from a directory that have a ctime of less than 30 days. Most tutorials I have found have basically recommended doing something like this: tar cvf foo.tar $(find ~/POD -type f -ctime -30) The…
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running tar completely locks up mysql

I am having a seriously weird issue. If I tar some random directory with many files or a single large file tar -pcvf files.tar /var/log, mysql gets completely locked up and all mysql connections get used up for the time tar is running. My nginx…
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How do you only tar files in a directory based on a specific file name?

I want to create a tar ball and include only the files in the directory that start with a specific filename. For instance I have apples-x.x.x and oranges-x.x.x, and I only want to tar the files beginning with "apple". How can I do this? Thanks!
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cpio VS tar and cp

I just learned that cpio has three modes: copy-out, copy-in and pass-through. I was wondering what are the advantages and disadvantages of cpio under copy-out and copy-in modes over tar. When is it better to use cpio and when to use tar? Similar…
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Is it safe to zip/tar hotcopied svn repositories?

We want to store our backups of our svn repositories as a flat file. We'd like to tar/zip the whole hotcopied directory. I know that we could dump it to a flat file but let's pretend that we'd rather use hotcopy instead. Are there any gotchas (i.e.…
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fastest backup for large files

what is the fastest way to duplicate a folder contain few files with few hundred megs size and other few megs small files? (say, /var/lib/mysql) cp or tar or rsync or...??
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Exclude mounted folders from tar archive

we want to backup our server and this seems to be pretty simple thing to do except one. Currently we use something like this: tar cvpjf backup.tar.bz2 --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/backup.tar.bz2 --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/sys…
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Linux tar archive without parent structure

I'm trying to modify a certain tar.gz archive I have. When I go to create the tar, it retains the parent directory structure, as a tarball should. However, is there a way to simply create a tar archive with just the files I specifiy, rather than the…
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CentOS 5.6 Update Version Of Tar

I am running CentOS 5.6 and for some ungodly reason, the version of tar is from 2004, and not compatible with the node package manager (NPM). How in the world can I update it? Is there an additional yum repository I can add, so I can simply execute…
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tar incremental backup with --listed-incremental does not work for me (Linux, Ubuntu)

according to http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/tar/Incremental-Dumps.html, i try to create incremental backups with tar and --listed-incremental on my Ubuntu, but the --listed-incremental part does not work for me. On day 0 I…
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How to manually extract a backup set made by duplicity?

I have a set of files on my webserver produced by duplicity software: duplicity-full.20110315T085334Z.vol1.difftar.gz duplicity-full.20110315T085334Z.vol2.difftar.gz duplicity-full.20110315T085334Z.vol3.difftar.gz etc... (50 files, total size about…
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tar file modified bit (am I being BS'd to?)

I'm working on a project where I'll be using tar to incrementally backup data on a server to a number of tapes. According to a senior co-worker of mine, tar will "set special flags on files so that it can tell if the files has been modified since…
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tricks for speeding up tar while tarring up a huge directory of little files?

I'm trying to tar up a directory that has about 3M tiny files in it. Tar is chugging along, but I'm thinking its going to take longer than I can wait. I'm wondering if telling tar to not store metadata (owner, group, perms) would reduce the churn…
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"Stream" tar action from remote server through Putty?

I am accessing a shared hosting account through Putty / SSH. The account is pretty full, 300 MB below its quota. I need to make a full backup of all data present on the account. Creating a bzip2 file using tar cjf archive.tar.bz2 directory/*…
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