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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem with tar in a backup script Post 302381080 by TennageWerewolf on Thursday 17th of December 2009 06:19:19 AM
Old 12-17-2009
Problem with tar in a backup script
I had an idea of very-very easy bacup script that packs ALL of the files in current dir (including the subfulders and with spaces in name), packs them with tar+gz and moves to a directory. I'm using Cywin under WinXP.
But I have a problem with tar. When I do in a single line

"tar -rf "backup.tar" "somefile1.txt"; "tar -rf "backup.tar" "somefile2.txt";

It says that I need -M for multiple archives (?).
That's my code:

Code:
#!/bin/sh
BackUpDir="/cygdrive/D/Backup5"
if ([ $1 ]) then
  BackUpDir=$1
fi
if ([ ! -d $BackUpDir ]) then
  mkdir -pv $BackUpDir
fi
ArchiveName="$BackUpDir/"`date +"%d.%m.%y(%H.%M)"``dirs | sed 's!^\(/\?.*\)*/\(.*\)$!\2!g'`".tar"
PackCommand=`find -type f -regex ^.*$ | sed 's!^\(.*\)$!tar -M -rf \"__tmp.tar\" \"\1\"'!g`
$PackCommand
rm "__tmp.tar" $ArchiveName
gzip $ArchiveName

Last edited by pludi; 12-17-2009 at 07:43 AM.. Reason: code tags, please...
 

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virt-tar-out(1) 					      Virtualization Support						   virt-tar-out(1)

NAME

       virt-tar-out - Pack a virtual machine disk image directory into a tarball.

SYNOPSIS

	virt-tar-out -a disk.img /dir files.tar

	virt-tar-out -d domain /dir files.tar

	virt-tar-out -d domain /dir - | gzip --best > files.tar.gz

DESCRIPTION

       "virt-tar-out" packs a virtual machine disk image directory into a tarball.

       The first parameter is the absolute path of the virtual machine directory.  The second parameter is the tar file to write.  Use "-" to
       write to standard output.

EXAMPLES

       Download the home directories from a guest:

	virt-tar-out -d MyGuest /home - | gzip --best > homes.tar.gz

JUST A SHELL SCRIPT WRAPPER AROUND GUESTFISH

       This command is just a simple shell script wrapper around the guestfish(1) "tar-out" command.  For anything more complex than a trivial
       copy, you are probably better off using guestfish directly.

OPTIONS

       Since the shell script just passes options straight to guestfish, read guestfish(1) to see the full list of options.

SEE ALSO

       guestfish(1), virt-cat(1), virt-copy-in(1), virt-copy-out(1), virt-edit(1), virt-tar-in(1), <http://libguestfs.org/>.

AUTHORS

       Richard W.M. Jones ("rjones at redhat dot com")

COPYRIGHT

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