That is why you better make the backup without the leading /, for example (cd / && tar cf - .) instead of tar cf - /.
But IMHO you can tell pax to make some modifications. RTFM:
RTFM? Really?
Did you even read the post? It clearly states I already tried using -s (ReplacementString) without success, how do you think I got to this parameter?
No, I cannot use cd/tar since I am doing this in a script and grabbing dozen or so different directives and sending them to tape.
I want to perform a task on all the files in the current directory but I'd like to loop through them one at a time. How do I tell it to give me the first filename? (2 Replies)
Hi All
I was wondering what is the most efficient way to find files in the current directory(that may contain 100,000's files), that meets a certain specified file type and of a certain age.
I have experimented with the find command in unix but it also searches all sub directories. I have... (2 Replies)
Dear All:
we are using backup command on AIX to take backup
as below in this command we also add compress command
ulimit unlimited
cd /apps/oracle
find orcldb orcldata arch |tee /apps/orabkp/ofgl.faysalbank.com-17Jun10Thu-ORCL-DB.bkp.gz.log | backup -ivqf - |gzip -c >... (0 Replies)
Hello Every one,
I want to back up all passwd files to /xyz/passfiles.cpio
and Then restore them to /abc directory.
Here is what I wrote:
find / -name passwd | cpio -oc > /tmp/passwd.cpio
and to restore
cd abc
cpio -ium < /tmp/passwd.cpio
I can not find the files restored to /abc... (2 Replies)
I wanna make a backup tarball. I wanna write a script that makes tarball of the current directory.
There are lots of files so I cant type all files, I wanna make the tarball by excluding few files.
Like there 1000 files in a directory I wanna create a tarball containing 98 files of that... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I want to use the string with the current directory in my awk command.
I tried: 'pwd=system("pwd")'
but it doesn't work. can please help somebody? (2 Replies)
I am trying to restore a specific directory and all sub-directories therein using a rootvg tape. I am using the following command to make the backup:
mksysb -m -i -v /dev/rmt0
However, I am getting the following result:
tctl status
rmt0 Available 04-08-00-0,0 LVD SCSI 4mm Tape Drive... (10 Replies)
Hi, I'm very new to Unix, but have been given a command to type in which is :
mail -s <email subject goes here> <my email address> <success.txt
this command is quite a basic one and sends an email containing the contents of the file "success.txt" to whatever email I put in with the subject of... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have taken a backup of a directory on my tape in using below command
cd /backup
find * -print|backup -ivf '/dev/rmt0' '-U' |tee -a /syslogs/backup.log and output appear in below format.
a 0 rman-before-08032014
a 58403323904... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: m_raheelahmed
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS
archive_write_format
ARCHIVE_WRITE_FORMAT(3) BSD Library Functions Manual ARCHIVE_WRITE_FORMAT(3)NAME
archive_write_set_format_cpio, archive_write_set_format_pax, archive_write_set_format_pax_restricted, archive_write_set_format_shar,
archive_write_set_format_shar_dump, archive_write_set_format_ustar -- functions for creating archives
LIBRARY
Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive)
SYNOPSIS
#include <archive.h>
int
archive_write_set_format_cpio(struct archive *);
int
archive_write_set_format_pax(struct archive *);
int
archive_write_set_format_pax_restricted(struct archive *);
int
archive_write_set_format_shar(struct archive *);
int
archive_write_set_format_shar_dump(struct archive *);
int
archive_write_set_format_ustar(struct archive *);
DESCRIPTION
These functions set the format that will be used for the archive.
The library can write POSIX octet-oriented cpio format archives, POSIX-standard ``pax interchange'' format archives, traditional ``shar'' ar-
chives, enhanced ``dump'' shar archives that store a variety of file attributes and handle binary files, and POSIX-standard ``ustar'' ar-
chives. The pax interchange format is a backwards-compatible tar format that adds key/value attributes to each entry and supports arbitrary
filenames, linknames, uids, sizes, etc. ``Restricted pax interchange format'' is the library default; this is the same as pax format, but
suppresses the pax extended header for most normal files. In most cases, this will result in ordinary ustar archives.
RETURN VALUES
These functions return ARCHIVE_OK on success, or ARCHIVE_FATAL.
ERRORS
Detailed error codes and textual descriptions are available from the archive_errno() and archive_error_string() functions.
SEE ALSO tar(1), libarchive(3), archive_write(3), archive_write_set_options(3), cpio(5), mtree(5), tar(5)BSD February 2, 2012 BSD