Here’s another way of creating a tar ball from a list of files.
tar -cvf backup.tar.gz a.txt b.txt c.txt d.txt e.txt |
Here’s how to view files in a tarball.
tar -tvf backup.tar.gz |
verbose
Copy Files Using Rsync
Here’s how to copy files from one directory to another.
rsync -arvz /dir1 /dir2 >> /tmp/rsync.log & |
Format: rsynch –options source destination
Options
- -a archive mode
- -v verbose
- -p keep permissions
- -z zipped during transfer
- -r recursive