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Create tarball

November 19, 2005 – 10:42 pm
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The Unix tar command creates an archive of files and directories while preserving directory structure, file permissions and ownership information. This command is ideally suited for creating backups of most types of data. Many open-source …

Unix Files Transferred To CD

November 19, 2005 – 10:40 pm
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In our example we were requested to archive a 741 mb directory to CD. The source data resided on a Unix data server.

Copy directory structure and files with cpio

November 19, 2005 – 10:38 pm
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A basic command to copy directory structure and contents using cpio.

Create TAR and pipe through gzip

November 19, 2005 – 10:36 pm
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A simple example of creating a gzip-compressed tar archive of the current directory.

RSync remote copy

November 19, 2005 – 10:35 pm
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The following is an example of using rsync to perform a irectory copy between two hosts over the network.