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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
The below bash will untar each tar.bz2 folder in the directory, then remove the tar.bz2.
Each of the tar.bz2 folders ranges from 40-75GB and currently takes ~2 hours to extract. Is there a way to speed up the extraction process?
I am using a xeon processor with 12 cores. Thank you :).
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2. AIX
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
root@test8:/>gunzip < /config1/bkp_15_6_16_oraapp.tgz |... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: filosophizer
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
We have the requirement that, needs to extract the *.arj (archive) files in IBM AIX platform.
Anyone can guide me to how to extract the files using ARJ or any other zip technique.
Regards,
Deepak. (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: mkdeepak87
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
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
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Discussion started by: scriptor
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm working on a project that requires me to compress then relocate directories to a different location based on their last date of modification. After running the script I check to see if it worked, and upon unzipping the tar.gz using I created everything that should be there is. I then performed... (4 Replies)
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6. Emergency UNIX and Linux Support
i need to restore everything in a certain directory and lower. I have a tgz archive of all of the files, and i need to restore everything in /user/home/xxxx/ and below. this is a users home directory. this is a dumb question and i know when i see the answer i am going to say DUH, but i am... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: frankkahle
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7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Not sure if this is really in the right forum but here goes....
Looking for a way to extract individual compressed files from a compressed tarball WITHOUT tar -zxvf and then recompressing. Basically we need to be able to chunk out an individual compressed file while it still remains... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: athos
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8. AIX
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)
Discussion started by: Browser_ice
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have this tar file which has files of (.ksh, .ini &.sql) and their hard and soft links.
Later when the original files and their directories are deleted (or rather lost as in a system crash), I have this tar file as the only source to restore all of them.
In such a case when I do,
tar... (4 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I'm pulling a 1MB file from tape using tar. It's a 300GB DLT tape and it does have a lot of files on it because it's go the entire OS and Oracle RMAN files and 3000 table exports, but it's taking 2-3 hours to pull this file off of it. Is this type of performance what I should expect?
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