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Old 08-23-2003
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Originally posted by sameerdes
My server does not have much space and backing up on tape would have taken much time and anyway, I wanted free space temporarily. Hence, I was looking for something, which would compress contents of all sub-directories.
gzip is available on our server
Tar is more than a tape backup program. Tar w/ gzip installed on the server would be able to create a compressed recursive backup of directory that you need backed up. I use this quite frequently when I need a quick backup of a website. I believe tar is recursive from the directory that you started down the tree.

try using:

"tar -cpz * > filename.tar.gz"

I used * as wildcard to take everything in the dir i am in and everythign underneath it, but you can specify any file or dir that you want.
 
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clprivnet

clprivnet(7)					     Sun Cluster Device and Network Interfaces					      clprivnet(7)

NAME

       clprivnet - SUNW,clprivnet Sun Cluster private network driver

SYNOPSIS

       /dev/clprivnet

DESCRIPTION

       Note -

	 Beginning  with  the Sun Cluster 3.2 release, Sun Cluster software includes an object-oriented command set. Although Sun Cluster software
	 still supports the original command set, Sun Cluster procedural documentation uses only the object-oriented command set. For more  infor-
	 mation about the object-oriented command set, see the Intro(1CL) man page.

       The  SUNW,clprivnet  Sun  Cluster  private  network driver is a STREAMS pseudo driver supporting Sun Cluster resident applications that use
       standard Solaris interfaces to communicate over the Sun Cluster private network. By striping data traffic over all links, this driver opti-
       mally utilizes the bandwidth of the private network while supporting highly available, software fault-tolerant communication.

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE

       The driver is supported by the character-special device /dev/clprivnet, but is reserved for Sun Cluster internal operation and the standard
       Solaris network utilities. This interface must not be directly used for general application communication.

ADMINISTRATION

       The administration and configuration of the driver as a network interface is done completely by the Sun Cluster infrastructure internals.

FILES

       /dev/clprivnet

	   clprivnet special character device

       /usr/kernel/drv/clprivnet.conf

	   System-wide default device driver properties

Sun Cluster 3.2 						    05 Sep 2007 						      clprivnet(7)