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Old January 3rd, 2002, 09:00 PM
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Creating tar file
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Can someone help me with the correct command line to create a recursive tar.gz file on a directory structure??

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"man tar" for all the options.

or
tar cvf poop.tar /poop ; gzip poop.tar

or

tar cvfz poop.tar.gz /poop
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tar -zpscf tarfilename.tar.gz directory/*

Here's a Perl script that will create a recursive tarfile, and name it with the date and time embedded in the filename. I usually place it in /usr/local/bin. Just call it while adjacent to the directory you want to archive, using the directory name as the argument:

myscript directory_name

or

myscript directory_name/

Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
$dir_in=shift(@ARGV);
chomp($dir_in);
$dir_in =~ tr/\///d;
print "Archiving $dir_in/* ...\n";
use POSIX qw(strftime);
$now_string = strftime "%m-%d-%Y_%H%M", localtime;
$tarname=$dir_in."_".$now_string.".tar.gz";
$execstring="tar -zpscf ".$tarname." ".$dir_in."/*";
#print($execstring); # uncomment to debug
system($execstring);
print("\n");
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Hey there thanks for the posts..... I found that the

tar cvf poop.tar /poop works for me however some of the files in the tar file have not recorded the directory the files have come from.. is there an easy way to fix this? does it have something to do with the size of the archive file? etc etc.....

what is the command to exclude a directory from the archive??
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do not forget that the output tar file should be is other directory
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