Difference between revisions of "Archiving With GNU tar"

Revision as of 20:23, 20 February 2018

Back up directory with full path

tar -p -zcvf /world2018021802.tgz /usr/local/xtar/world

Restore with path relative from the current directory

tar xvzf world2018021802.tgz

tar -P xvzf

other

tar -sp -zcvf var-lib-mysql.tar.gz /var/lib/mysql -P

tarball:

tar -sp -zcvf mysqlhotcopy.tar.gz  /home/username/placetoputbackupfile -P

tar -sp -zcvf archive.tar.gz /mounted/directory -P

List contents of filename.tar to the screen

tar -tvf filename.tar

List the contents of a gnuzip (gzip) compressed tar archive.

tar -ztf name-of-file.tgz

Verbosely

tar -ztvf name-of-file.tgz

Search the archive

tar -ztf name-of-file.tgz | grep -i "search string"

Verbosely

tar -ztvf name-of-file.tgz | grep -i "search string"

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 Back up directory with full path
-  tar -p -zcvf /world2018021802.tgz /usr/local/minecraft/world
+  tar -p -zcvf /world2018021802.tgz /usr/local/xtar/world
 Restore with path relative from the current directory
@@ Line 9: / Line 9: @@
   tar -P xvzf
+other
+ tar -sp -zcvf var-lib-mysql.tar.gz /var/lib/mysql -P
+tarball:
+ tar -sp -zcvf mysqlhotcopy.tar.gz  /home/username/placetoputbackupfile -P
+ tar -sp -zcvf archive.tar.gz /mounted/directory -P
+List contents of filename.tar to the screen
+ tar -tvf filename.tar
+List the contents of a gnuzip (gzip) compressed tar archive.
+ tar -ztf name-of-file.tgz
+Verbosely
+ tar -ztvf name-of-file.tgz
+Search the archive
+ tar -ztf name-of-file.tgz | grep -i "search string"
+Verbosely
+ tar -ztvf name-of-file.tgz | grep -i "search string"