A solution is to list all files to archive in a file and to use this list as InputList for tar. The corresponfing tar option is -L for AIX.
For Solaris the tar option to use is -I.
You can also build a list of files to exclude and use the -X tar option
I am looking for some advice. I have some files on a Unix server, which contain symbolic links. I need to copy these over to a nfts environment, but wish to keep the symbolic links intact. Any ideas? (7 Replies)
Hello Gurus,
I have a requirement where I have to remove users that have not logged into our unix box last 90 days. I want to script this one and remove the users automatically now and then. Has any one ever done this before, if so please give me some sample code. I am not a good unix... (2 Replies)
Hi friends
I work on UNIX Operating system and I have many servers.
ADM server make archiving for special data every day inside XYZ directory at specific time,the next time SPERADM server will take that archiving data to put them in same directory (inside SPERADM server).
Now archiving... (2 Replies)
Hi all. I am trying to set up archiving of directories, such that I keep every directory made in the past week, but just one directory per week beyond that. Using the find command, I can easily delete everything more than one week old, but can not figure out how to save one.
Each directory... (4 Replies)
Hi,
Suppose I have 2 files of yesterday's. And today I have received 3 files.
Before processing anything I want to archieve the 2 files of yesterday's into a different folder.
How can this be done?
Regards,
Sunitha (1 Reply)
Dear Unix Experts,
I am trying to backup some legacy data based on date. I am pasting a small portion from the ls -al command from my session for reference.
athena>ls -al
./nmr/exam1d_13C:
total 32
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 May 1 2008 1/
drwxrwxrwx 3 root ... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am trying to develop a KSH script, to perform the following functions:
1. ZIP the previous day backup to ZIP Directory, while removing any ZIP file older than a week.
2. Perform the backup.
3. Send a confirmation mail with subject content of the size of file.
Please let me... (0 Replies)
hi,
Am trying to acrhive a bunch of files on some ftp site and somehow managed to come out with the below logic.
I'm getting "syntax error: unexpected end of file" error. Interestingly this below snipeet works fine if run for the first time but the subsequent runs fail!
Anybody has any idea... (3 Replies)
Hi ,
Might be the very basic question and most frequent one also..
wanted to archive the logs/files older than one month or older than 30 days to some particular location.
File/log format is like below
ABCD_EF_GHIJ_Defaulter_Report_(06-Jun-2014_11-50-20_AM)
Source : /test/ABC... (3 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
chroot
chroot(1M) System Administration Commands chroot(1M)NAME
chroot - change root directory for a command
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/chroot newroot command
DESCRIPTION
The chroot utility causes command to be executed relative to newroot. The meaning of any initial slashes (/) in the path names is changed
to newroot for command and any of its child processes. Upon execution, the initial working directory is newroot.
Notice that redirecting the output of command to a file,
chroot newroot command >x
will create the file x relative to the original root of command, not the new one.
The new root path name is always relative to the current root. Even if a chroot is currently in effect, the newroot argument is relative to
the current root of the running process.
This command can be run only by the super-user.
RETURN VALUES
The exit status of chroot is the return value of command.
EXAMPLES
Example 1 Using the chroot Utility
The chroot utility provides an easy way to extract tar files (see tar(1)) written with absolute filenames to a different location. It is
necessary to copy the shared libraries used by tar (see ldd(1)) to the newroot filesystem.
example# mkdir /tmp/lib; cd /lib
example# cp ld.so.1 libc.so.1 libcmd.so.1 libdl.so.1
libsec.so.1 /tmp/lib
example# cp /usr/bin/tar /tmp
example# dd if=/dev/rmt/0 | chroot /tmp tar xvf -
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO cd(1), tar(1), chroot(2), ttyname(3C), attributes(5)NOTES
Exercise extreme caution when referencing device files in the new root file system.
References by routines such as ttyname(3C) to stdin, stdout, and stderr will find that the device associated with the file descriptor is
unknown after chroot is run.
SunOS 5.11 15 Dec 2003 chroot(1M)