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1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi,
The only off-line storage medium I have is DVD. I am trying to back up around 10G of data and if I can achieve a practical solution I will use it more generally.
I am currently considering something along the lines of:
tar --create --multi-volume --tape-length=nnnn <pathspec>
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
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)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm looking to archive a client directory from a CIFS share
There are multiple directories that will be stored in a text file and I'm looking to
create an individual tar archive of each folder in the directory.
I've tried a number of commands to no avail.
Here's what I would like.
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4. Post Here to Contact Site Administrators and Moderators
Hi,
Do we have monthly membership (VIP) in our forum?
if not, do we have any plans for it?
Regards, (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: clx
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all,
4 files are returned when i issue 'find . -mtime -1 -type f -ls'.
./ora_475244.aud
./ora_671958.aud
./ora_934052.aud
./ora_934050.aud
However, when I issued the below command:
tar -cvf test.tar `find . -mtime -1 -type f`, the tar file only contains the 1st file -... (2 Replies)
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6. OS X (Apple)
If you've come across this problem with unzipping/decompressing zips, you might find this helpful:
I was having a little trouble with unzipping (decompressing) tarred archives under OS 10.5 until today. My first attempt was to just simply double-click on the zip file (i.e., example.tar.gz) and... (2 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
pls can anyone help me with this script, the script is below, i need the script to get the previous month result every new month , the problem is that the loop has to be automated to always calculate for previous month .
a=`date "+%Y"` #this year to be used
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
HI, are you supposed to run flarcreate in multi user mode? or should you do it in single user? (1 Reply)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
assuming i need to create a tar archive which would turn out to be bigger than 2gb, how could i segment the archive into say, 1 gb parts? (3 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have a tar archive which I believe may be corrupted, produced on an HP-UX 10.x box and written to a 4mm DDS-3 tape.
I understand that gnu tar has a -W (--verify) option which will attempt to verify the archive after it has been created. Am I right in saying that this option cannot be used to... (4 Replies)
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