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Old 04-04-2017
Tar.gz help - Need to tweak
Hi Guys -

I need help tweaking my tar.gz process. Currently, I compress all files in a directory, in which the parent directory is included in that.

I only want to compress the "*.txt" files in the follow process:

Code:
tar -zcvf ${_ESSB_TAR_PATH}/Essbase_Exports_${_DATETIMESTAMP}.tar.gz -C / u01/app/Hyperion_Batch/Exports/Essbasez
RVAL=$?

if [ $RVAL -eq 0 ]
then
  echo ---------------------------------------------------------
  echo "Zip Essbase Export Files : Successful"                           
  echo ---------------------------------------------------------
  
else
  echo ---------------------------------------------------------
  echo "Zip Essbase Export Files : Unsuccessful"                      
  echo ---------------------------------------------------------
  exit 1
  fi

I've used the find feature of and piped results to tar but then I get the silly "tar: Removing leading `/' from member names" srderror, hence why I'm doing -C / above.

Can anyone help me? The reason for this is I want to put the tar.gz file in the same directory as the files I'm compressing. If I tried to place the results int he same directory using the code above, it would give me an error saying it was still modifying the directory and what not.

Thank you!
# 2  
Old 04-04-2017
Is this just a case of appending *.txt to the long pathname you already have, or have i missed the point?
Code:
tar -zcvf ${_ESSB_TAR_PATH}/Essbase_Exports_${_DATETIMESTAMP}.tar.gz -C / u01/app/Hyperion_Batch/Exports/Essbasez/*.txt

Are there very many files that causes this to about (command line too long) or something else?

If I've misunderstood, can you illustrate what I'm not understanding.

An alternate might be to:-
Code:
pushd /u01/app/Hyperion_Batch/Exports/Essbasez      # Change directory but remember history
tar -zcvf ${_ESSB_TAR_PATH}/Essbase_Exports_${_DATETIMESTAMP}.tar.gz *.txt
RVAL=$?
popd                                                # Put you back to where you were.

if ....... #and the rest of your script.




Thanks,
Robin
Last edited by rbatte1; 04-04-2017 at 06:08 AM.. Reason: Added pushd/popd options
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# 3  
Old 04-04-2017
Hi Robin -

Your alternative solution works great! Thank you so much! I use PUSH and POPD quite a bit in batch.

Thanks again and have a great day!
# 4  
Old 04-04-2017
What's so silly about the message cited? It's NOT an error, it's for your safety when restoring so files will not be overwritten, but there's other means to achieve this, e.g. ..skip-old-files. Or:

man tar:
Quote:
-P, --absolute-names
don't strip leading '/'s from file names
Also, the second "error" you quote is more an info. It's always worthwhile to read, analyse, and understand those messages. "What not" doesn't seem to be the result of such.
Try to --exclude the target archive - if it IS due to rhat file. Are you sure it's not the database files that are modified / written to during archiving? It's not a good idea to do a system archive with a DB live, as on restore the DB may be in an inconsistent state. Use DB tools to archive.
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