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Create full backups of individual folders using find and tar-gzip

Problem: I wanted to backup user data individually. In this example, all user data is located in "/mnt/storage/profiles", and about 25 folders inside, each with a username ( /mnt/storage/profiles/mike; /mnt/storage/profiles/lucy ...) I need each individual folder backed up, not the whole "/mnt/storage/profiles". So, using find while excluding directories depth and creating two variables (tarfile=username & desdir=destination), tar will create a .tgz file for each folder, resulting in a "mike_full.tgz" and "lucy_full.tgz".
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find /mnt/storage/profiles/ -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d | while read d; do tarfile=`echo "$d" | cut -d "/" -f5`; destdir="/local/backupdir/"; tar -czf $destdir/"$tarfile"_full.tgz -P $d; done

jaimerosario · 2013-12-05 19:07:17 6
Create incremental backups of individual folders using find and tar-gzip

Problem: I wanted to backup user data individually, using and incremental method. In this example, all user data is located in "/mnt/storage/profiles", and about 25 folders inside, each with a username ( /mnt/storage/profiles/mike; /mnt/storage/profiles/lucy ...) I need each individual folder backed up, not the whole "/mnt/storage/profiles". So, using find while excluding directories depth and creating two variables (tarfile=username & desdir=destination), tar will create a .tgz file for each folder, resulting in a "mike_2013-12-05.tgz" and "lucy_2013-12-05.tgz".
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find /mnt/storage/profiles/ -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d | while read d; do tarfile=`echo "$d" | cut -d "/" -f5`; destdir="/local/backupdir"; tar -czvf "$destdir"/"$tarfile"_`date +%F`.tgz -P $d; done

jaimerosario · 2013-12-05 19:18:03 8
Unpack .tgz File On Linux

With -a you don't care about file type (bz2, gzip, etc.)
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tar -axf fileNameHere.tgz

toro · 2014-02-01 16:14:22 6
tar+pbzip2 a dir
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tar --exclude='patternToExclude' --use-compress-program=pbzip2 -cf 'my-archive.tar.bz2' directoyToZip/

FreedomBen · 2014-02-14 18:05:50 6
generate file list modified since last commit and export to tar file

################################################################################ # get all modified files since last commit and zip them to upload to live server ################################################################################ # delete previous tar output file rm mytarfile.tar -rf #rm c:/tarOutput/*.* -rf # get last commit id and store in variable declare RESULT=$(git log --format="%H" | head -n1) # generate file list and export to tar file git diff-tree -r --no-commit-id --name-only --diff-filter=ACMRT $RESULT | xargs tar -rf mytarfile.tar # extract tar files to specified location tar -xf mytarfile.tar -C c:/tarOutput Show Sample Output
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git diff-tree -r --no-commit-id --name-only --diff-filter=ACMRT COMMID_HASH | xargs tar -rf mytarfile.tar

sarfraznawaz2005 · 2014-03-04 12:16:07 404
Export unpushed files list
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git log origin/master..master --name-only --pretty="format:" | sort | uniq | xargs tar -rf mytarfile.tar

sarfraznawaz2005 · 2014-03-04 12:17:29 7
Create a tar archive using xz compression

Compress files or a directory to xz format. XZ has superior and faster compression than bzip2 in most cases. XZ is superior to 7zip format because it can save file permissions and other metadata data.
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tar -cJf myarchive.tar.xz /path/to/archive/

Sepero · 2014-03-13 03:34:18 6
Create a tar archive using xz compression

compress directory archive with xz compression, if tar doesn't have the -J option (OSX tar doesn't have -J)
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tar -cvf - /path/to/tar/up | xz - > myTarArchive.tar.xz

razerwolf · 2014-03-18 19:51:50 7
Extract tar.gz file with original permission

-x, --extract, --get extract files from an archive -p, --preserve-permissions, --same-permissions extract information about file permissions (default for superuser) -f, --file=ARCHIVE use archive file or device ARCHIVE -v, --verbose verbosely list files processed
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tar -xvpf file.tar.gz

shajeen · 2014-04-25 10:23:03 8
Copy a folder with progress with pv
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SRC="/source/folder"; TRG="/target/folder/"; tar cf - "$SRC" | pv -s $(du -sb "$SRC" | cut -f1) | tar xf - -C "$TRG"

glaudiston · 2015-11-20 22:55:44 13
Compress files in a directory
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tar -zcvf archive-name.tar.gz directory-name

zluyuer · 2017-02-14 05:01:31 18
IBM AIX: Extract a .tar.gz archive in one shot
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gunzip -c file.tar.gz | tar -xvf -

keenoar · 2019-02-07 21:23:35 37
Shows the largest files in your archives
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tar -tvjf backup.tar.bz2 | sort -nrk 3 | head

Sekenre · 2009-02-05 11:57:18 89
move files without actually touching them
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cd /some/directory \&\& tar cf - | cd /some/directory \&\& tar xvf - */

mnikhil · 2009-02-07 18:48:39 9
package most recent files in project

create tar.bz2 package from files "-type f" modificated today "-mtime -1" in ~/project
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find ~/project -mtime -1 -type f -print | tar jcvf myfiles.tar.bz2 -T -

voyeg3r · 2009-03-13 13:03:11 4
Archive every file in /var/logs
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find /var/logs -name * | xargs tar -jcpf logs_`date +%Y-%m-%e`.tar.bz2

unixmonkey4063 · 2009-06-02 19:48:47 6
Extract multiple file in a directory

You can flexibly change file pattern(*.tar.gz) and uncompress command to other job! Example, remove all files : for i in *.tar.gz; do rm $i; done (Just for example, because if you really want to remove file, simply use wildcard like this rm *.tar.gz)
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for i in *.tar.gz; do tar -xzf $i; done

kureikain · 2009-06-13 03:58:48 11
extract all tgz in current dir
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ls *tgz | xargs -n1 tar xzf

freestyler · 2009-07-09 08:54:06 5
Copy files from list with hierarchy

If you want certain files out of a directory hierarchy, this will copy just the listed files, but will create the directory hierarchy in the new location ($DIR/)
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cat files.txt | xargs tar -cv | tar -x -c $DIR/

lingo · 2009-08-06 22:55:21 6

This command creates tar zip of a directory and its sub-directories. Show Sample Output

tar cvfz dir_name.tgz dir/

unixmonkey6220 · 2009-09-15 10:20:20 4

Create a simple backup

The command as given would create the file "/result_path/result.tar.gz" with the contents of the target folder including permissions and sub- folder structure. Show Sample Output
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With the "v" it will list all the files being placed into the tar.gz.

Without the "v" there is a simple return to command line when action completed.
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tar pzcvf /result_path/result.tar.gz /target_path/target_folder

CafeNinja · 2009-11-10 11:17:00 5
lists contents of a tar file
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tar -tf /path/to/file.tar

imsaar · 2009-12-01 20:58:07 4
Create & transfer tarball over ssh

Create tarball on stdout which is piped to tar reading from stdin all over ssh
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ssh -c 'tar cvzf - -C /path/to/src/*' | tar xzf -

unixmonkey8504 · 2010-03-02 14:15:17 3
How to archive all the files that are not modified in the last x number of days?

The following command finds all the files not modified in the last 5 days under /protocollo/paflow directory and creates an archive files under /var/dump-protocollo in the format of ddmmyyyy_archive.tar
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find /protocollo/paflow -type f -mtime +5 | xargs tar -cvf /var/dump-protocollo/`date '+%d%m%Y'_archive.tar`

0disse0 · 2010-06-29 12:43:30 3
backup home dir exclude dot files
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tar --exclude=".??*" -zcvf ./home_backup_2008.tar.gz my_home

dtolj · 2010-09-10 00:48:03 3
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Send an email from the terminal when job finishes

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Recursively unrar into dir containing archive

From the cwd, recursively find all rar files, extracting each rar into the directory where it was found, rather than cwd. A nice time saver if you've used wget or similar to mirror something, where each sub dir contains an rar archive. Its likely this can be tuned to work with multi-part archives where all parts use ambiguous .rar extensions but I didn't test this. Perhaps unrar would handle this gracefully anyway?

Chmod all directories (excluding files)

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check open ports without netstat or lsof

Run netcat to server files of current folder

a function to put environment variable in zsh history for editing

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Resolution of a image

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c_rehash replacement

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Choose from a nice graphical menu which DI.FM radio station to play

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