I need information as to how I can produce a tar.gz archive of my home directory, with all files and subdirectories set out so that I can unpack the archive in case I need to replace the /home directory, etc. I looked in the Howtos, and found no help. The manual pages are inadequate and therefore unhelpful as well. thanks dj tuchler
You should be root to do this since /home may contain other directories. su # set uid to root cd /home tar czf /tmp/home.tar.gz . The reason I specified /tmp is that you do not want to put the tar archive in the same directory you are archiving. Doing it this way, you will get the entire contents of /home, but with relative patch names so you can easily restore in any directory. On 11 Apr 2002 at 14:12, Dennis Tuchler wrote:
I need information as to how I can produce a tar.gz archive of my home directory, with all files and subdirectories set out so that I can unpack the archive in case I need to replace the /home directory, etc.
I looked in the Howtos, and found no help. The manual pages are inadequate and therefore unhelpful as well.
thanks
dj tuchler
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I need information as to how I can produce a tar.gz archive of my home directory, with all files and subdirectories set out so that I can unpack the archive in case I need to replace the /home directory, etc.
I looked in the Howtos, and found no help. The manual pages are inadequate and therefore unhelpful as well.
thanks
dj tuchler
Midnight Commander wil do it for you. Position it inside your home directory and press F2. Select option 3 Make a release of the current subdirectory (tar.gz), and that's it. Regards. - -- Alfredo J. Cole http://www.acyc.com (Accounting Systems) http://www.clshonduras.com (Linux Hardware) PGP Key available from certserver.pgp.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8teZEu5DxuPWE298RAnjnAJ99xsHOQHm+I2ybaorhaeXoVGuhSQCeLPlT eAsR9nWG8a11UGfDoTTDjww= =pfDA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On April 11, 2002 04:38 pm, Alfredo Cole wrote:
El Jue 11 Abr 2002 13:12, escribiste:
I need information as to how I can produce a tar.gz archive of my home directory, with all files and subdirectories set out so that I can unpack the archive in case I need to replace the /home directory, etc.
I looked in the Howtos, and found no help. The manual pages are inadequate and therefore unhelpful as well.
thanks
dj tuchler
Midnight Commander wil do it for you. Position it inside your home directory and press F2. Select option 3 Make a release of the current subdirectory (tar.gz), and that's it.
Be careful with that one. It's meant for software releases and will replace symlinks with the linked files/directories. - -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8ttN4+FOexA3koIgRAl/mAKCWW06LSY5snxFjKOeBRq7EFhyK8ACfUMKg 71KQEtZfJiqSseYbPH2mRlc= =GL5A -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
# cd / # tar zcvf home.tar.gz home To recover # cd / # tar zxvf home.tar.gz z means compress (Use I if you want a bz2 image) c means create x means extract v means verbose (tells you what's in the archive) f means tar to/from a file: the filename follows f and the target comes at the end. I use this for porting to solaris where I don't have gnu tar and so have to use the extra step # gunzip directory.tar.gz # tar xvf directory.tar JDL Dennis Tuchler wrote:
I need information as to how I can produce a tar.gz archive of my home directory, with all files and subdirectories set out so that I can unpack the archive in case I need to replace the /home directory, etc.
I looked in the Howtos, and found no help. The manual pages are inadequate and therefore unhelpful as well.
thanks
dj tuchler
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