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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users How to zip/tar millions of files? Post 302478654 by verdepollo on Wednesday 8th of December 2010 12:41:33 PM
Old 12-08-2010
Computer How to zip/tar millions of files?
Hi guys,

I have an issue processing a large amount of files. I have around 5 million files (some of them are actually directories) in a server.

I am unable to find out the exact number of files since it's taking "forever" to finish (See this thread for more on the issue).

Anyway, now I want to move these ~5 million files to a different location so my first thought was to tar/gzip the files and SCP them somewhere else as a single file however the tar process is also taking a loooong time to finish (in fact it never finished and I cancelled the job after 10 hours).

Basically I just want to build a single package containing the ~5 million files (zip, tar, cpio, raw data, whatever) so that I can easily move and transfer the files to a different location.

Any ideas?

Thank you.
 

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zipmerge

ZIPMERGE(1)						      General Commands Manual						       ZIPMERGE(1)

NAME

       zipmerge - merge zip archives

SYNOPSIS

       zipmerge [-DhIiSsV] target-zip source-zip Op source-zip ...

DESCRIPTION

       zipmerge  merges  the  source zip archives source-zip into the target zip archive target-zip.  By default, files in the source zip archives
       overwrite existing files of the same name in the target zip archive.

       Supported options:

	      -D   Ignore directory components in file name comparisons.

	      -h   Display a short help message and exit.

	      -I   Ignore case in file name comparisons

	      -i   Ask before overwriting files.  See also -s.

	      -S   Do not overwrite files that have the same size and CRC32 in both the source and target archives.

	      -s   When -i is given, do not before overwriting files that have the same size and CRC32.

	      -V   Display version information and exit.

EXIT STATUS

       zipmerge exits 0 on success and 1 if an error occurred.

SEE ALSO

       zipcmp(1), ziptorrent(1), libzip(3)

AUTHORS

       Dieter Baron <dillo@giga.or.at> and Thomas Klausner <tk@giga.or.at>

NiH								   June 4, 2008 						       ZIPMERGE(1)
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