Running tar tvzf tarfile.tgz will give you date and size of the respective files; at least a first evidence for file changes.
Yes, but only if you use GNU-tar, because the standard AIX-tar doesn't understand the "-z" (decompress from zip-compressed format) option. I suggest to use
instead which will work with GNU-tar and any standard-tar alike.
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Originally Posted by filosophizer
thanks RudiC , but the data is composed of 270 GB so imagine the number of files and directories.
The "-t" option RudiC suggested only lists the names and sizes of the files, not the files themselves. The output depends on how many files there are but typical database-files are a few and big. Furthermore, you do not need to compare the different outputs by hand, use the "diff" tool as suggested by zaxxon.
Another option would be to use "find" to get the creation time, see "man find", seaching for "ctime".
Is Solaris still very hardware dependent? As in it is used mostly on SUN workstations and servers?
What about IBM's AIX? Does it only work on IBM machines?
Which is more popular and are there performance or usage differences? (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a question.
Im trying to tar a files that the size is bigger that 2 gig.
When i tried to tar it, i got an error says "eached end-of-file before expected"
How can i solve this?
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Hi,
I am using AIX 5.2, and I want to copy some files from one server to a remote server using tar command. Can anybody tell me exact command?
Thanks.
Aqeel (2 Replies)
Hi,
On my Unix Server in my directory, I have 70 files distributed in the following directories (which have several other files too). These files include C Source Files, Shell Script Source Files, Binary Files, Object Files.
a) /usr/users/oracle/bin
b) /usr/users/oracle... (1 Reply)
Hi, is there a way to use compression on the TAR command running on a AIX 4.2 ?
I did a "man tar" but did not see mentions of using compression, nor how to even find out the tar version.
I want to look into ways of reducing the amount of time to do backups. One backup is dumping database... (9 Replies)
I'm investigating AIX/HP-UX/Solaris for use in a research environment. Although there is plenty of technical documentation online, some important questions can only be answered from long user experience. I'd like to hear whatever you can contribute if you can compare at least two of these.
To... (16 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a tar file and inside that tar file is a folder with additional tar.gz files. What I want to do is look inside the first tar file and then find the second tar file I'm looking for, look inside that tar.gz file to find a certain directory. I'm encountering issues by trying to... (1 Reply)
Hi
i want to tar a directory.. i have tried few command but it is not working .
please let me know how to tar and untar a directory
below are the error which i am getting
tar -zxvf tl11cp01_042414_071123.tar.gz
tar: Not a recognized flag: z
tar -zxvf... (3 Replies)
Hello,
Getting this very strange error, made tar/zip through gnu tar
GNU Tar ( successful tar and zip without any errors )
/opt/freeware/bin/tar cvf - /oraapp| gzip > /backup/bkp_15_6_16_oraapp.tgz
GNU unTar error
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bf_tar
BF_TAR(1)BF_TAR(1)NAME
bf_tar - shell script to write a tar file of a bogofilter directory to stdout
SYNOPSIS
bf_tar [-r] [-R] bogofilter_directory
DESCRIPTION
bf_tar bundles a bogofilter working directory in tar format and copies it to standard output (your console, or where you redirect it, see
EXAMPLES below).
OPTIONS
The -r option causes bf_tar to remove inactive log files after the archive has been written successfully. The default is to leave log
files.
The -R option causes bf_tar to remove inactive log files before the archive is written. This may reduce chances that the resulting archive
is recoverable should it become damaged. The archive may be smaller though. The default is to leave log files.
EXIT STATUS
The script exits with status code 0 if everything went well, and nonzero if it encountered trouble.
EXAMPLES
o bf_tar ~/.bogofilter > outfile.tar
Writes a standard .tar file containing the essential files from ~/.bogofilter to outfile.tar.
o bf_tar ~/.bogofilter | gzip -9 -c > outfile.tar.gz
Writes a gzipped .tar.gz file containing the essential files from ~/.bogofilter to outfile.tar.gz.
o bf_tar `pwd`/mydirectory > outfile.tar
Prepend $(pwd)/ or `pwd`/ if you want to specify an absolute path instead of a relative path.
NOTES
This script is meant for use with Berkeley DB based bogofilter versions.
This script requires a SUSv2 compliant pax utility.
This script expects a SUSv2 compliant shell. Solaris systems should have the SUNWxcu4 package installed (when bogofilter is configured) so
that /usr/xpg4/bin/sh can be used.
07/23/2007 BF_TAR(1)