The very first problem is that you do not create a relative tar archives:
You did this:
Instead of this
Note the leading red dot.
To do what you ask, one way to do this extract a relative tar archive to some harmless disk somewhere, delete the file(s) you no longer want, then rebuild the archive. Note that most places do not do things this way, it is very cumbersome. Rather, there is a backup plan, and incremental backups made, say every day of the month. A full back up is made at month end. Then last month's incrementals are overwritten day by day.
You keep the month end backups and one month of incremental backups. We cycle on a 90-day basis, not 30.
If you had relative tar files (you don't) you could try something like this:
Hi there,
I am trying to tar a number of files held in a specific folder. I am only interested in archiving files older than 30 days. Having read through the man entries and all available documentation I thought I'd cracked the coomand with
tar -c -z -v -N 15/04/2004 -f /wfch.tar *
This... (6 Replies)
Hello,
I have a tar archive full of compressed .Z (compressed with the compress command) files. I have restored the tar to a disk but am looking for a way to uncompress every file in every sub-directory. Under normal circumstances, I would just change directories and "uncompress *" but with 1600... (3 Replies)
Hi, I would modify to delete the files after creating the tar archive.
How I can modify the following command:
tar -cvvf logswitch.tar `find *.log* -mtime +5`
It create a tar with files that are older than 5 days. (5 Replies)
Hi,
I need to create recursive tar archive, while I put there only files of type a*.txt.
Without file filtering the command is: tar cfzf test.tar.gz test_tar/
How I include the switch for including only files with pattern a*.txt ?
Thanks a lot! (1 Reply)
Hello,
I need help in finding files older than x days and creating a single consolidated tar file combining them. Can anyone please provide me a script?
Thanks,
Dawn (3 Replies)
Hi,
I'm Eddy from Belgium and I've the following problem.
I try to write a ksh script in AIX to tar, compress and remove the original *.wav files from the directory belgacom_sf_messages older than two days with the following commands.
The problem is that I do not find a good combination... (4 Replies)
Hi Folks,
I have a tar.gz compressed file with me, and I want to know the number of files in the archive without uncompressing it.
Please let me know how I can achieve it.
Regards
RK Veluvali (5 Replies)
Hi all. Here's my situation:
I have performance reports that run every 30 minutes saved in the format:
stats_report_11251000.txt
stats_report_11251030.txt
stats_report_11251100.txt
stats_report_11251130.txt
(Obviously run at Nov 25 10 AM, 10:30 AM, 11 AM and so on...)
I would... (2 Replies)
I need a script file for backup (zip or tar or gz) of old log files in our unix server (causing the space problem). Could you please help me to create the zip or gz files for each log files in current directory and sub-directories also?
I found one command which is to create gz file for the... (4 Replies)
I cant seem to work out how to count the number of executable files in a particular tar archive? Only in a directory as a whole.
I also cant work out how to count number of certain file types in a tar archive. Only the directory, pretty stuck :( (9 Replies)
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virt-tar-out
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")
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