How to Create a Tar File to a Specific Folder from a Different Folder
Hi Guys I Am New to Linux. I Am Trying to Create a Tar File from a Different Directory and Want to Be Placed a Specific Directory. I Have Tried This Cmd Tar...
Hi guys i am new to linux.
I am trying to create a tar file from a different directory and want to be placed a specific directory.
I have tried this cmd
tar -cvf dailybackup.tar /root/filesfromlocalmachine/ -C /root/backup/
There is a folder in the name pf backup and i want the tar to be created there. But whenever i execute this the tar is been created at the folder where i am executing the command. Is there a way to create a tar file from a different folder.
2 Answers
Yes, put the directory in front of the "tar".
cd /
tar -cvf /where/to/put/it/dailybackup.tar root/backup/
and it will backup root/backup.
I would suggest to always makes backups with a relative path (as I used in my answer) otherwise you might overwrite the destination when you wanted to restore it elsewhere and then do a compare with the backup version.
Whenever tar encounters a -C option, the current working directory changes, all subsequent options that follow are affected. It makes this option order-sensitive.
./a: ./b:
file001 file002
e.g., using multiple -C options makes the second -C relative to the first.
$ tar -vcf archive.tar.gz -C ./a . -C ../b .
./
./file001
./
./file002
Because -C does not adjust the [FILE...] entry, path expansion (... globbing) will not work. However, in cases where globbing is required, --transform may be used.
$ tar -cvf archive.tar.gz \
--show-transformed-names --transform='s:^./.*/::' ./[ab]/file00?
file001
file002
also, '--strip-components=<n>' can be used to strip leading components on extraction.
$ tar -vxf archive.tar.gz \
--show-transformed-names --strip-components=2
file001
file002
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