30 20 ** 2 tar –cz /home/user1 > /home/user1/backup.tar.gz
Is it alright ?
Sigh...
RudiC has told you two times now to separate the two asterisks by a space. The line as you present it is still wrong because of that and no matter what options to tar you try will change anything about that BECAUSE THIS IS NOT THE PROBLEM IN FIRST PLACE!
Try a layered approach: first, consult the man pages of cron and learn how to configure a (any) command to be run by cron. Only then concern yourself with constructing the correct tar-command: first manually. When it finally does what you want it to do put it into cron using your new-found expertise on creating cron-jobs.
So much as a starter: cron jobs have NOT the same environment as commands run from an interactive session, namely the PATH variable is empty and therefore you should use full pathnames. instead of tar <cmd> /some/path you need to write something like /usr/bin/tar <cmd> /some/path. Notice the full path to the command. Your path might differ, but you can easily get the (on your system) correct path with the which command:
Is there a way I can check if a file is comppressed or not? (Be it tar/gzip or compress). trying to write a generic housekeeping scrit that will delete files over 6 months old and compress any uncompressed files if less than 6 months old. But not sure if there is a clever way to check except for... (4 Replies)
Are any of you guys aware of any problems when trying to sort compressed fields? Why I uncompress the file I am trying to sort, I have no problem sorting but when I try to sort compressed fields it doesnt work properly. I need to be able to sort these compressed fields. Any explanation why? (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a file that has got compressed data. I would want to uncompress the packed decimal data(not the file). is there a way to do that in ksh? (6 Replies)
Hi
i have a filename.tar.bz2 and i have to parse it with a tool that doesn't support compressed files.
I have to do it for many big files, so i can't decompress and then process. I'd like to do something like:
tar -jxvf namefile.tar.bz2 | parsing_tool
i mean analyze it directly,... (4 Replies)
Hello all
I want to help
I have some compressed files on the system
When you want to unzip these files
Delete any file which symlink
"ln -s"
{{
I need script is necessary
Script contain:
Any operation to decompress the system is doing to delete any symlink... (0 Replies)
i have a file 4d7a94d0.bbb.1292
when i do
file 4d7a94d0.bbb.1292
the ouput is below
4d7a94d0.bbb.1292: gzip compressed data - deflate method
and i run this command
gunzip -c 4d7a94d0.bbb.1292 | awk '{gsub("\"","")}/I_ACCOUNT_ID/{print $2}' RS=":|;" FS=","
i get... (3 Replies)
I need UNIX scripts for polling, Uncompressing files and moving files between directory. Also trying to save file paths and any other variables in an independent file (.env) and use these at runtime by executing this file in the main script. (3 Replies)
Hi All,
Is there is any way to find the size of compressed file without doing decompression. The size should give the original uncompressed data size
Thanks
Arun (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: arunkumar_mca
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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")
COPYRIGHT
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