mysqldump –opt <database> | gzip -c | ssh user@wherever ‘cat > /tmp/yourfile.sql.gz’ You can’t use tar in a pipe like this, and you don’t need it anyway, as you’re only outputting a single file. tar is only useful if you have multiple files.
Why not use -C option when creating: $ tar cf /var/www/site.tar -C /var/www_bak/ site
cURl error 56 can have different reason like: Passing data to be uploaded in URL itself instead of POST request Probably Proxy blocking the request to the server. In some cases, server do not support particular request, like some servers support PUT/POST any one of them. When I received this error last time, it was … Read more
I would try to unzip and untar separately and see what happens:
First of all tar -xf should work since tar continues while it matches its’ packing algorithm. If the file stops matching so would tar. Also most archive managers such as 7-zip or winrar will open it if you remove the “.md5”. They might print error regarding mismatch with the end of the file, ignore it. … Read more
z means (un)z̲ip. x means ex̲tract files from the archive. v means print the filenames v̲erbosely. f means the following argument is a f̱ilename. For more details, see tar‘s man page.
I try to tar.gz a directory and use The resulting tar includes .svn directories in subdirs but NOT in the current directory (as * gets expanded to only ‘visible’ files before it is passed to tar I tried to tar -czf workspace.tar.gz . instead but then I am getting an error because ‘.’ has changed … Read more
tar in itself just bundles files together (the result is called a tarball), while zip applies compression as well. Usually you use gzip along with tar to compress the resulting tarball, thus achieving similar results as with zip. For reasonably large archives there are important differences though. A zip archive is a collection of compressed files. A gzipped tar is a compressed collection (of uncompressed files). Thus a zip archive … Read more
You defined what to exclude, but didn’t define what you actually want in the archive. Supply at least one path. If you want entire filesystem, then tar -c……. /
The letters are: x – extract z – gunzip the input f – Read from a file, not stdin