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Serge Litehead · 07-12-2004, 01:34 PM

$ man tar

for huge amounts use bzip2, better compression, a bit slower.

something like:
tar cvyf archive.tar.bz2 domain_dir/

to untar it
tar xvyf archive.tar.bz2

flag v is verbose, you don't need that in script.

07-12-2004, 01:34 PM
Serge Litehead Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Behind the scenes Posts: 5,190	$ man tar for huge amounts use bzip2, better compression, a bit slower. something like: tar cvyf archive.tar.bz2 domain_dir/ to untar it tar xvyf archive.tar.bz2 flag v is verbose, you don't need that in script.