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Can I tar the whole system, clear everything and untar it back?
I have to do the whole system cleanup, deleting and recreating all partitions.
I'm wondering if I could simply tar all my / (excluding proc, sys and mnt) into archive and then untar it into clear ...
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How do I extract a specific file from a tar archive?
Hi is possible to restore a single file from the .tar backup ? I dont want to restore total backup . i just want to restore one single file from the backup .
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How can I backup and encrypt with tar, split and openssl, all in one command?
I often use tar to backup my stuff in 4 gigabyte chunks to a directory on a FAT32-formatted disk, as documented here.
To get that done, I use the following command: tar -cvpj /path/to/directory/ | ...
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(tar: /dev/nst0: Cannot read: Cannot allocate memory) with tar, pv and tape drive
I'm trying to use pv (pipeviewer) along with tar to do tape backups in order to see the progress and eta like so:
du -s /home/myuser
115630916 /home/myuser
tar -cf - /home/myuser/ | pv -s 115630916 ...
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Encrypt tar.gz file on create
I have a script which creates a nightly backup of several directories.
It is created using tar -czf, and the destination tar.gz file path is on a mounted network directory. The resulting file is ...
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Can you help me remotely backup my filesystem?
The institution I work for wants me to backup the entire filesystem of a server and store it on another server. Both servers are running the latest release of Ubuntu. I'm having a little bit of ...
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tar: “Cann't stat: No such file or directory”
Following command sudo tar jcf /datos/backup/news/news.tar.bz2 -C /var/www/news news is giving "tar: Cann't stat: No such file or directory" error.
How can I solve this problem?
As it had been ...
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how would I create a tar without using sudo?
If I tar my /home/username and create the .tar file in /home/username, then I get an error of the sort . file changed as we read it probably because the directory file itself is changing due to the ...
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backup by compress tar each directory
I’m looking for a method to scan a directory (not recursive) and tar it using the original folder name, and then delete the folder (so I will have only the folder compressed)
Anyone has the command ...
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How do I extract a tarball, skipping some of the leading directories?
I am archiving a folder using following command:
tar jcf "home/username/forum/forum.tar.bz2" /var/www/forum/
Then I am extracting using :
tar jxf forum.tar.bz2 ./
It extracts correctly, but ...
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tar: Backing up an encrypted /home folder?
After some trial and error, I've managed to backup my Ubuntu 10.04 workstation and it's time for my Laptop. It also runs 10.04, but has an encrypted /home folder.
Running the below snippet as root ...
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tar Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
I am trying to backup my Ubuntu workstation by the help of this guide and are running into trouble as the tar command outputs
Exiting with failure status due to previous errors.
Here's what I ...
