Archive files

kayarsenal · #1 (**permalink**) 08-18-2006

Hi All,
I wrote this script:

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
while read DAYS ARCH_PATH
do
  cd $ARCH_PATH
  find . \( -type d ! -name . -prune  \) -o  -type f -mtime +$DAYS -exec tar -cv
f kay_`date +%d%m%y%H%M`.tar {} \;
  cd -
done < filestoarchive.txt

The problem is, in a folder of 7files, I would expect to have 7files archived, but the script only archives only 1 file.

Please advise.

kayarsenal · #2 (**permalink**) 08-18-2006

Hi,
Has anyone seen this before pls? I tried to archive some files and I get this message:
tar: cannot stat xxx.ddmmyy.tar NOT DUMPED

Thanks

aigles · #3 (**permalink**) 08-18-2006

You can build the list of files to archive and use the -L option of tar :

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
while read DAYS ARCH_PATH
do
  cd $ARCH_PATH
  find . \( -type d ! -name . -prune  \) -o  -type f  -mtime +$DAYS | sed "s+^.+$PWD+" > filelist
   cd -
done < filestoarchive.txt
tar -cvfL  kay_`date +%d%m%y%H%M`.tar filelist

Jean-Pierre.

kayarsenal · #4 (**permalink**) 08-18-2006

Hi,
Its you again.Thanks a lot. I executed this code but got only the list of files in the filelist file but no .tar file in the folder. Please why do we have 'cd -' in the code? Whats the use of that?

Regards,
Kay

aigles · #5 (**permalink**) 08-18-2006

cd - returns to the previous directory.
I have modified the script a little bit.

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
FileList=$PWD/filelist
while read DAYS ARCH_PATH
do
  cd $ARCH_PATH
  find . \( -type d ! -name . -prune  \) -o  -type f  -mtime +$DAYS | sed "s+^.+$PWD+" > $FileList
  cd -
done < filestoarchive.txt
tar -cvfL  kay_`date +%d%m%y%H%M`.tar $FileList

Jean-Pierre.

kayarsenal · #6 (**permalink**) 08-18-2006

By the way, I removed the L option, but it tarred only the filelist,where as it should tar the files in the filelist. Did u mean small L (l) instead of L. I tried that too but still, it tarred only the filelist file.

kayarsenal · #7 (**permalink**) 08-18-2006

Hi
Still I believe the final command

Code:

tar -cvfL  kay_`date +%d%m%y%H%M`.tar $FileList

still tars the filelist. I reckon it should be passed to the tar command just like we did with the filestoarchive.txt. Sorry to bother you, did you try it?

For example: I wanted it to archive any files in folder ARSENAL that are older than 40days. In the filestoarchive, I have

40 /path/Arsenal

Assuming there are 5files older than 40days, I should have the tar file with the date, and better would be to remove the files.

Thanks

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