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Old 01-10-2009
Compressing several directories
Could someone help with the easiest command to compress several directories and files?

For example, I want two directories:
/var/www/logs/
and
/var/www/zones/

and this file:
/var/www/messages

to be compressed by tar/zip to a specific output directory like:
/var/www/backup.extension

But, I want the original files to remain intact (not deleted)


Thanks in advance for your help!!
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Old 01-10-2009
Are you doing it to keep backup of these directories/files?
Code:
tar -czvvf backup.tgz /var/www/logs/  /var/www/zones/ /var/www/messages

Above command wont harm /var/www/logs/ /var/www/zones/ directories. It will simply create backup.tgz. which will have all mentioned directories and files together and in zip format.

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