Question - how to use tar to compress multiple top level folders recursively into discrete zip files
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Well of the
--- foldernever changes, but the content beneath it does, that would be what I would target.I'm trying to resolve our user base breaking our backups by have file paths longer than 255 characters, which the simplest way I can think of is to just compress everything in
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@JasGot said in Question - how to use tar to compress multiple top level folders recursively into discrete zip files:
@DustinB3403 said in Question - how to use tar to compress multiple top level folders recursively into discrete zip files:
Does it matter, the tar process is tar?
But osx is likely where this would be run from.
Because I was going to write a cmd for loop for you if it were Win, and I was going to pass if it were *nix.
It's the shell, not the OS, that determines the looping structure. PowerShell on Linux is the same as on Windows. Bash on Windows is the same as on Linux.
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I don't follow your - - - naming scheme. Can you explain differently?
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@Obsolesce said in Question - how to use tar to compress multiple top level folders recursively into discrete zip files:
I don't follow your - - - naming scheme. Can you explain differently?
Yeah the spacing didn't copy over from mobile.
Essentially it's
Root folder
- sub folder
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- child folder
- different sub folder from root
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- child folder
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Okay so this is the next annoyance with this, I am getting the entire parent folder up until the target folder in the compressed file.
IE: compressed-folder.tar contains
- Share Name
- Sub-Parent-Folder
- Next-Level-Parent-Folder
- Target-Folder
. . . . all of the files and sub-folders
- Target-Folder
- Next-Level-Parent-Folder
- Sub-Parent-Folder
Anyway to have tar just target the
Target-Folderthat is on an SMB share, compress that specifically (and it's children to a single file) so I can then move that compressed file without all of the overhead folder structure? - Share Name
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I suppose I could mount each and every
Target-Folderbut that seems completely counter intuitive and a massive effort. . . -
@DustinB3403 said in Question - how to use tar to compress multiple top level folders recursively into discrete zip files:
Okay so this is the next annoyance with this, I am getting the entire parent folder up until the target folder in the compressed file.
IE: compressed-folder.tar contains
- Share Name
- Sub-Parent-Folder
- Next-Level-Parent-Folder
- Target-Folder
. . . . all of the files and sub-folders
- Target-Folder
- Next-Level-Parent-Folder
- Sub-Parent-Folder
Anyway to have tar just target the
Target-Folderthat is on an SMB share, compress that specifically (and it's children to a single file) so I can then move that compressed file without all of the overhead folder structure?Why not specify
/path/to/targetfolder/ - Share Name
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@Obsolesce said in Question - how to use tar to compress multiple top level folders recursively into discrete zip files:
Why not specify /path/to/targetfolder/
I'm not following what you mean.
How I'm currently doing this is
tar -zcvf Compressed.zip /Volumes/Parent/Child/Target-folder/Edit:
And I get everything in the path
/Volumes/Parent/Child/Target-folder/so the compressed file, when decompressed is/Volumes/Parent/Child/Target-Folder/some-stuffWhat I want is just
Target-Folderand it's contents, not the parent folder path. -
Supposedly
tar -C /Volumes/Parent/Child/Target-folder -cvf Compressed.zip SelectedDirectoryworks. . . let me test that. -
@DustinB3403 said in Question - how to use tar to compress multiple top level folders recursively into discrete zip files:
Supposedly
tar -C /Volumes/Parent/Child/Target-folder -cvf Compressed.zip SelectedDirectoryworks. . . let me test that.Okay so that does work, just is a pain in the rear to have to do manually.
