On Thu, 1 Sep 1994, Giovanni Ruffini wrote: > Hhmm... I know that this doesn't DIRECTLY pertain to the subject of this group, > but I really don't know where else to turn, so please bear with me :) > I want to make a backup copy of the work I've been doing on a modified circle > 2.2, and it just doesn't seem worth it to me to ftp and download every file > one at a time, and since I have touched almost every file, that'd be what I'd > have to do if I can't figure out how to tar and compress entire trees of > directories and everything that's contained therein. The man page hasn't helped > me much; I know some of you guys must have done this with circle before. > Could I bother you for a step by step how-to? > Thanks so much, > Nino I think this works fine: 1. From whatever directory you want to tar (the world directory in this case), type 'cd ..' to get one level up. 2. Type 'tar -cf [name of output file] [directory name]' will tar the directory and all its sub-directories. I think I usually do: cd circle tar -cf world.backup.tar world compress world.backup.tar And I end up with a file called world.backup.tar.Z Hope that helps. ##=====================###================================================## || Joshua Sky Barrow ||| Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Science || ##=====================###================================================## || 19 Central St., #28 ||| "If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. || || Somerville, MA ||| If you can dream it, you can become it." || || 02143-3832 ||| Unknown || ##=====================###================================================## || (617) 666-0859 ||| E-mail: jsbarrow@fas.harvard.edu || ##=====================###================================================##
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