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tar many uses

Problem

You want to make some backups with tar.

Problem	Solution	Example	Reference	Recommended
If you are lucky enough to have GNU tar (tar –version will return GNU if so), then you can compress and backup at the same time. tar zcvf /tmp/filename.tgz . This backups and zips the contents of the current directory, to filename.tgz in tmp directory. If not - no drama. This will backup and pipe through content to gzip, which then zips it. tar cvf - . \| gzip –best > /tmp/filename.tgz Recreate a directory: mkdir new tar -C old -cf - . \| tar -C new -xvf Restore over the network: ssh remote_hostname "(tar -cf - remote_directory)" \| tar -xvf - For example: ssh bree "(tar -cf - Perl_Bin)" \| tar -xvf -

tar many uses

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