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ssh -l username server.tdl "tar -czf - /home/username/public_html" | tar -xzf -
2012-07-24 21:06:49
User: dzup
Functions: ssh tar
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Get backup from remote host, then expand in current directory using tar
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tar -cvzf home_backup.tar.gz --exclude={.*,Downloads} /home/<user>
2012-07-24 12:16:33
User: mesuutt
Functions: tar
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tar exclude files or directories

If you want to exclude only one file or directory you should use as --exclude=file_or_directory

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tar cvzf - /folder/ | ssh [email protected] "dd of=/dest/folder/file.tar.gz"
2012-07-13 17:54:51
User: kruspemsv
Functions: ssh tar
Tags: ssh tar ssh tunnel
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Create tar over SSH

Really useful when out of space in your current machine.

You can ran this also with cat for example:

tar zcvf - /folder/ | ssh [email protected] "cat > /dest/folder/file.tar.gz"

Or even run other command's:

tcpdump | ssh [email protected] "cat > /tmp/tcpdump.log"
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tar zcpvf backup.tgz $(find $HOME -maxdepth 1 -name '.*' -and -not -name '.')
2012-05-01 17:48:24
User: DavidAlfonso
Functions: find tar
Tags: backup
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Backup hidden files and folders in home directory

This will make a backup of all hidden files and folders in the home folder.

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GZIP="--rsyncable" tar -czf something.tgz /something
2012-04-24 19:06:56
User: dash
Functions: tar
Tags: tar rsync gzip
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Create rsyncable tar archives with gzip compression
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tar zcvf /path/to/your-`date +%Y-%m-%d`.tar.bz2 ./your/directory --exclude ./you/dont/want/to/include
2012-04-10 01:28:36
User: liushuililuo
Functions: tar
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backup your file with tar and exclude the file or directory which you don't want
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ssh [email protected] "cat /path/to/archive.tgz" | tar zxvf -
2012-04-04 13:05:23
User: maxmanders
Functions: ssh tar
Tags: ssh tar.gz
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Extract remote gzip tarball
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find /protocollo/paflow -type f -mtime +5 | xargs tar -cvf /var/dump-protocollo/`date '+%d%m%Y'_archive.tar`
2012-02-03 16:24:08
User: 0disse0
Functions: find tar xargs
Tags: backup find Zope paflow
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Archive all files that have not been modified in the last days

Finally, we can make the file "unchangeable"

sudo chattr +i

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tmpfs(){ cd /;for i in [email protected];do tar czvf /tmp/$i $i;mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /$i;tar xvzf /tmp/$i;cd ~ ;}# usage: tmpfs etc var
2011-12-30 23:27:56
User: argv
Functions: cd mount tar
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mount a folder tmpfs
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tar czf git_mods_circa_dec23.tgz --files-from <(git ls-files -m)
2011-12-23 15:31:21
User: jemptymethod
Functions: tar
Tags: git tar process substitution
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Create tarball of files modified in git
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tar -xaf archive.tar.gz --strip-components=1
2011-11-29 07:38:19
User: sirex
Functions: tar
Tags: tar strip
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Extract tar content without leading parent directory

If archive has leading directory level same as archive name and you want to strip it, this command is for you.

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tar xfz filename.tar.gz -C PathToDirectory
2011-11-17 12:43:56
User: Dhinesh
Functions: tar
Tags: tar.gz
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Redirect tar extract to another directory

The command extracting the tar contents into particular directory ...

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while true; do nc -l 7000 | tar -xvf -; done
2011-10-26 23:43:51
User: anhpht
Functions: tar
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Create a file server, listening in port 7000

At client side:

tar c myfile | nc localhost 7000 ##Send file myfile to server

tar c mydir | nc localhost 7000 ## Send directory mydir to server

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tar -cf - /etc | tar -xf - -C </destination/folder>
2011-10-06 19:31:58
User: vtrone
Functions: tar
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Real full backup copy of /etc folder
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tar cvf - /src | ( cd /dest ; tar xvf - )
2011-09-22 15:35:24
User: a8ksh4
Functions: cd tar
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Tar Pipe

This is how I've done it in the past

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(cd src && tar -cf - .) | (cd dest && tar -xpf -)
2011-09-22 11:30:57
User: Cowboy
Functions: cd tar
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Tar Pipe

Simple tar pipe to be used to copy directories while including hidden files and maintaining file permissions

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find ./ -iname "*.dmp" -maxdepth 0 -type f -exec tar czvf {}.tar.gz --remove-files {} \; \;
2011-09-07 08:36:29
User: evilinside
Functions: find tar
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Archive tar.gz archives all files (with extension filter) individually from an location

This command will :

-Archive all *.dmp files individually (one file per archive) from current directory .

-Delete original file after has been compressed.

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svn st -q | cut -c 2- | tr -d ' ' | xargs tar -czvf ../backup.tgz
2011-08-31 10:30:29
User: titus
Functions: cut tar tr xargs
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archive all files containing local changes (svn)

This works more reliable for me ("cut -c 8-" had one more space, so it did not work)

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find . -type d|xargs tar rf ~/dirstructure.tar --no-recursion
2011-08-03 16:21:10
User: gdevarajan
Functions: find tar xargs
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Create a tar of directory structure only

The original suggestion did not work for me, when operating on folders located on an external mount (ie other than the root device) in Ubuntu. A variation using xargs does the trick.

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ssh -C [email protected] tar -c --exclude /proc --exclude /sys / | tar -x
2011-07-20 15:45:38
User: strzel_a
Functions: ssh tar
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Backup entire system through SSH
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cd / ; tar -cvpzf backup.tar.gz --exclude=/backup.tar.gz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/sys --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/media --exclude=/dev /
2011-07-20 15:44:07
User: strzel_a
Functions: cd tar
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Backup entire system

Backup your entire system on a tar ball file format.

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tar cf - . |(cd /targetdir; tar xvf -)
2011-07-13 05:03:58
User: jamomu
Functions: cd tar
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tar's and moves all contents of current directory to target dir
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for i in *.tar.gz; do tar -x -v -z -f $i && rm -v $i; done
2011-06-25 20:40:44
User: Nichlas
Functions: rm tar
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Decompress all .tar.gz files and remove the compressed .tar.gz
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for i in "*.txt"; do tar -c -v -z -f $i.tar.gz "$i" && rm -v "$i"; done
2011-06-25 20:39:06
User: Nichlas
Functions: rm tar
Tags: Batch Utilities compress tar.gz
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Compress all .txt files to .txt.ta.gz and remove the original .txt
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tar -caf some_dir.tar.xz some_dir
2011-06-09 19:00:06
User: thetrivialstuff
Functions: tar
Tags: tar gzip tar.gz bzip2 tar.bz2 tar.xz xz
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have tar decide compression based on filename

the -a flag causes tar to automatically pick the right compressor to filter the archive through, based on the file extension. e.g.

"tar -xaf archive.tar.xz" is equivalent to "tar -xJf archive.tar.xz"

"tar -xaf archive.tar.gz" is equivalent to "tar -xzf archive.tar.gz"

No need to remember -z is gzip, -j is bzip2, -Z is .Z, -J is xz, and so on :)

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