Does anyone know how I can, via Telnet, create a zip or tar file with the contents of a folder. Example I want to tar the contents of /home/sites/ as a second backup that I can download. I'm pretty sure you can do this but not 100% sure.

:homer:

tar -cpPf tarfile.tar /home/sites/site1/*

then to make it a tar.gz

gzip -9 -S .gz tarfile.tar

grtz,

Juan

The tar command will most likely do what you want. Type "info tar" (without the quotes) for more details or "man tar" for harder to understand details.

Examples: (Examples are with RedHat. Your mileage may vary)

tar cvf ./sav.tar ./index.html
This command creates a new tar file and stores index.html in it.
c -Create a new tar file. In this case sav.tar
v - Be verbose in listing actions
f - Store/extract activity indicated

tar rvf ./sav.tar ./somefile.html
This command adds somefile.html to an existing
tar file. You can also add complete directories.
r - append to an existing tar file.


(Edit: Juan's reply is good and if I had noticed it during my interrupted edit I would not have posted. Juan and the manual specify the "-" with the options. Some versions seem to work without it. The "./" is not always required but the current directory is not necessarily in the path and the use is a good habit. This command has many options.)

Thanks... It worked... Problem with Cobalt backups are if the drive goes so does the backup so what good is that...

:D