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Hi,

I have a bunch of images (8k) in several directories. I want to tar these directories up and unzip them to development and production with the same path.

Example:

/about/images/sample_01
/about/images/sample_02
/about/images/sample_03
/about/images/lorem_ipsum
/about/images/lorem_ipsum2
...
...

How would I tar up all the directories that begin with 'sample_'?

Thanks for your help.

I'm guessing that all the sample_* directories are under /about/images
cd to the /about/images and the run the following:

Code:
tar cvf sample.tar sample_*

This will create a /about/images/sample.tar file.

View the table of contents of your tar file to see if all the directories and sub-directories are intact:

Code:
tar tvf sample.tar

Run the following on your production or development environment

tar xvf sample.tar

Correct. Let me try and report back. Thanks for your response!

Ok, I was able to the tar the directories correctly however... when I went to un-tar it, i got the following error message:

tar: can't set time on genga_58: Read-only file system
tar: genga_title.html - cannot create
tar: genga_title.pff - cannot create
tar: genga_title.txt - cannot create
tar: zoomifyViewer.js - cannot create
tar: can't set time on genga_title: Read-only file system

i cd to my destination and did the following cmd:

tar -xvf /xxxxxxx/xxxxxxxxxx/genga.tar

Can some one hep with the un-tarring? Thanks!

Below is my assumption on what is happening and what could be done...

Are you running the below command from the root [/] ? If you are then you need write permissions on the root directory? The below command means that you are trying to extract all the files and directories to the root directory.

tar -xvf /xxxxxxx/xxxxxxxxxx/genga.tar

I would suggest to 'cd' into /xxxxxxx/xxxxxxxxxx/ and run:

tar -xvf genga.tar

This will try to extract your files and directories to /xxxxxxx/xxxxxxxxxx/ where I guess you have the write permission.