I have a directory I want zipped into itself, minus the zip file of course. Actually I’m using tar which results in a ‘.tar’ file. For background, I needed to backup some symlinks to a remote machine but rysnc didn’t want to handle symlinks that lead to nowhere on the remote machine … as a result I had to compress the folder with the symlinks then do the remote backup (when I go to restore, hopefully never, I’ll have to extract the symlinks into their proper directory).<\/p>\n
My goal:
\n\/media\/files\/symlinks\/ -> into -> \/media\/files\/links\/directory_tar\/backup_symlinks.tar<\/p>\n
What worked:
\ntar -cf \/media\/files\/links\/directory_tar\/backup_symlinks.tar –exclude=.\/directory_tar -C \/media\/files\/ symlinkslinks<\/p>\n
How this worked<\/p>\n
tar -> linux command<\/p>\n
Then there is a space<\/p>\n
-cf -> the ‘c’ is ‘create a new archive’, the ‘f’ is ‘following is a file name for this archive”<\/p>\n
Then there is a space<\/p>\n
\u00a0-> The directory and file name for the archive<\/p>\n
Then there is a space<\/p>\n
–exclude -> we need to exclude the tar file which is in .\/directory_tar … by using the .\/ we simplify the exclude directory. This does not exclude the directory structure (the directory \/directory.tar is included in the tar file but not any files in it).<\/p>\n
Then there is a space<\/p>\n
-C -> means to change to the directory we want to backup. This is done so we don’t have a lot of unnecessary folder structures in the tar file, otherwise every directory from root on up would be included in the tar file (no content, but a long way to click to get to what we want)<\/p>\n
Then there is a space<\/p>\n
\u00a0->Now we put in the directory we want to switch to<\/p>\n
Then there is a space<\/p>\n
\u00a0-> Now we put in the directory we want to backup without leading or trailing backslashes.<\/p>\n
When we open the resulting archive we first see the folder ‘directory_tar’ and within that are all our files and directories except for the tar file itself which has been excluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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