Transfering and Restoring
Multiple Machines
Transfering Large File Structures
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11.C.6:
Transfering and Restoring
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11.C.4:
Transfering Large File Structures
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To create an archive of all (*) files and
subdirectories in your working directory, to place the archive in the
file development.tar, and to get a
verbose verbose report of what's happening, issue the
commands:
> cd development
> tar -cvf development.tar *
development.tar could be any name
you prefer, with the .tar suffix conventional. The final
* says to archive all files and subdirectories in the
present directory; it could be replaced by specific names if you do
not want to archive everthing. The "verbose" response of tar
you asked for gives something like:
a Mwm 180 Blocks
a README.first 26 Blocks
a a.out 57 Blocks
a development
a development/prog
a development/prog/area.f 2 Blocks
a development.tar.Z 2 Blocks
a eqns2.ms 4 Blocks
a plotoutfile.ps 8 Blocks
a public-html
a public_html/Coping.html 7 Blocks
We now check that the .tar file is there, and if it is
there, we compress it and see how much smaller it is:
> ls -l
> compress development.tar
> ls -l
If all this worked, you will find that your development.tar file has been replaced by a developmen.tar.Z file which is smaller.
You are now ready to learn how to transfer your file, how to uncompress it, and how to extract your archive.
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11.C.6:
Transfering and Restoring
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11:
Multiple Machines
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11.C.4:
Transfering Large File Structures
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