Questions tagged [archive]
Use this tag for questions about files containing other files and/or folders, that are not covered by a more specific tag like tar, cpio, zip, rar, ar, 7z (in that case only use the specific tags). For generic questions about making security backups and rsync's archive mode, use backup.
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Untar an archive without creating missing directories
I have a tar archive that looks something like this:
$ tar -tf archive.tar
foo/
foo/bar.txt
dontcreateme/baz.txt
The foo directory is directly specified in the archive, but dontcreateme is not - only ...
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How to install Archive for Rox-Filer on fresh system?
https://rox.sourceforge.net/desktop/Archive.html
used to be a very good archive manager for Rox-Filer, but I am unable to install deps. 0install keeps complaining either about Rox-Lib, or pygtk2.
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How to extract subdirectory from tar into another tar without `sudo`?
Given
A tar file with rootfs where all permissions and ownerships are set.
Expected
A tar file with content of subdirectory, let's say usr/local/lib where permissions and ownerships are retained.
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Difference between ar, tar, gzip, zip and when should I decide to choose which one?
I had a use case where I needed to pack a bunch of files into one. And all above commands does the same. I know gzip compresses my files but lets say space is not at all an issue for me then in that ...
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Error with option --strip-components when running example from manual of tar command
When reading the manual of tar command I encountered something wrong with the option --strip-components.
The example in the manual is that there is a tar file containing a directory with 3 files. When ...
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Compressing an archive of images does not reduce its size significantly
I have lots of pictures to back up from my computer to an external hard drive. I want to make archives of all picture folders I want to back up and compress them to save space on my external drive. I ...
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"initrd.img-5.10.0-18-amd64" exists but is not a a directory. Function "open" failed: is not a directory : trying to overwrite a file inside cpio arch
I would like to overwrite a file that's already located inside a cpio folder with a new file that has the same name. I'm having some troubles by finding the working parameters. I've found this webpage ...
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The file produced unpacking a kernel file with (gunzip and cpio),overwriting some files and repacking everything,is not bootable
How the title says,I'm trying to unpacking a kernel file (let's say the first one : initrd.img-5.10.0-18-amd64.gz) with gunzip and cpio,overwriting some files and repacking everything. The issue is ...
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Convert octet-stream to zip file
I tried to zip a backup folder that contains 50 GB of data. The result is a octet-stream (full 50 GB) instead of a zip file.
I have already erased the source data before I realize the issue.
Is there ...
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Zip folder content via CLI inside actual folder
I'm currently trying to create a ZIP file during a GitLab CI job including all data of the CI job (ZIP runs directly inside the folder):
zip -r helper.zip ./ -x .\* helper-hooks.json __MACOSX
The ZIP ...
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Update only permissions etc. with rsync
I'd like to know if the following scenario will update permissions, ownership, timestamps etc.
Say I transfer a folder from a destination to another using rsync -zr source/ dest/, and then use the ...
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Does the rsync "-a" option exclude the "-A" and "-X" option?
Rsync describes the -a or --archive mode as being equivalent to the options.-rlptgoD (no -H,-A,-X).
The -A and -X options are ambiguous and iit is not clear whether they are included or excluded.
-A ...
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How to make archive file with checksum like tar.md5 or tar.gz.md5?
How can I add checksum information to a TAR archive, as in
file.tar -> file.tar.md5 or
file.tar.gz -> file.tar.gz.md5
I have searched everywhere but there is no guide or app about it. I need ...
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7zip archive multiple files with their respective names
I have lots of files that I want to archive/compress using 7zip utility. They all reside in the same folder.
Each archive must have the same name as the file that is to be archived.
For example, if ...
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List of read only filesystems
What are all the read only filesystems still in use today?
I'm looking for one to create a read only archive flash drive.
The only ones I know about so far are:
SquashFS
ISO 9660
I'm looking for ...
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Fastest way to merge millions of small files together
I regularly need to transfer millions of small files (small images, txt, json) with average of 5-50k per file between servers or to aws s3.
Is there a faster to merge them into a single file to ...
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How do I extract a .tar.xz file? [duplicate]
Some software seems to be distributed in a new archive format:
$ file node-v18.7.0-linux-x64.tar.xz
node-v18.7.0-linux-x64.tar.xz: XZ compressed data
How do I extract this, preferably using tar (like ...
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Creating a tar.gz archive of multiple directories of different locations -- "tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive"
I'm trying to create an achive:
$ cd /tmp
$ tar -czf test1.tar.gz -C ~/Downloads/dir1 -C ~/Documents/dir2 -C ~/dir3/dir4/dir5
... which is supposed not to preserve the full path of the directories in ...
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How to extract a specific file version from a ZPAQ archive
Recently, I've been looking into ZPAQ, which can do versioned backups of files and directories. A big plus of ZPAQ is that it not only compresses data, but also deduplicates redundant blocks of data.
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find duplicates inside archives
I have a huge archive folder and want to integrate that into a local backup folder and then eliminate duplicates before making a cloud backup of the whole backupfolder.
The problem: the files in the ...
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Diff says that files differ after copying them with cp -a
I have a flash drive which I backed up onto a disk with the following command:
cp -a /media/user/flashDrive /home/user/Documents/flashBackup
Now I just wanted to quickly check if the files were ...
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Archive directory with tar/gz to multiple locations and omit an additional copy
I have a simple backup script, which also creates a tar/gzip archive of local data to an external USB device and then copies that archive to a second USB device.
For example:
usb1="/mnt/usbone&...
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What's command line equivalent from gnome / centos8 "extract here"
I'm facing a curious enigma.
I have a zip archive containing files whose filenames contains accented characters (é, à, è etc.)
The "extract here" function from gnome file manager perfectly ...
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Is it efficient to archive-n-compress or compress-n-archive storage size-wise?
I'm trying to archive old files (1000+) and thinking of two options
gzip individual files and then create a zip
create gzip using tar cvzf on group of files
Not sure what would be most efficient ...
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Tar's -r flag name meaning
Why tar flag used to append file to the archive is named -r?
Other flags' names have some explanations (-x for eXtract, -C for Change current dir to another for output, ..) but I can't get how to ...
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7z command to create a XZ file
The man page says 7z tool supports 7z, LZMA2, XZ, ZIP, Zip64, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM, ISO, most filesystem images and DEB formats.
And it says we could pass the type as -t{Type}. ...
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Can tar decompress an archive without untarring it?
If I have a compressed archive (e.g. archive.tar.xz), I can decompress it and get the archived files back with tar xf archive.tar.xz. As far as I understand, this is technically two steps: ...
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Easiest IMAP archiver for multiple accounts
I'm pretty new to linux, Im running Ubuntu at the moment. On windows I was using a service called "mailstore" to archive the entire contents of multiple email accounts. I've seen a few ...
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What is HIT Archive Data?
When I run file image.bin the output I get is: image.bin: HIT archive data
I'm not sure exactly what this file/archive type is and Google isn't giving me a solid answer
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What are the advantages of cpio over tar, zip, etc? [closed]
With cpio, you need to direct a list of files into cpio's standard input, whereas with tools such as tar, zip, etc, it's possible to recursively archive a directory (or multiple directories).
I ...
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What is the simplest way to send data to a tape library?
I am looking for the simplest (feasible) way to push data away on a tape library. This is for archiving finalized, immutable datasets that only need to be retrieved in case of a catastrophic failure ...
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Difference between an AppImage and an archive file
Many applications (IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, Android Studio, etc) are available as a tar.gz or tar.xz files. They do not need to be installed. You just need to extract the archive file and run the ...
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tar diff: get file names only
Using GNU tar, when I do tar df books.tar.bz2, I might get the following verbose result:
books/a.pdf: Mod time differs
books/a.pdf: Size differs
books/b.pdf: Mod time differs
books/b.pdf: Size differs
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How to uncompress multiple Zlib Archives with one comand
I have >200 .zlib Archives and I want to uncompress them using one command in Linux console. I just cant get the command right. maybe somone can help me:
for z in *.zlib; do; zlib-flate -uncompress ...
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How to view any ".a" files in Vim?
I get a bunch of characters while viewing .a files in Vim. Any idea how .a files can be viewed properly in Vim?
Dsp guy sam
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How can I extract a RAR file on Debian?
I've got a 20GB RAR file to extract with a password on Debian Linux Google Cloud VM.
I first tried sudo apt-get install unrar but the following output was given:
Reading package lists... Done
Building ...
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Why unar extract old rar file?
There are 2 rar files in my scenario, their names are 1.rar and 2.rar.
My purpose: 1.rar extract to folder1 and 2.rar extract to folder2.
First, I extract the 1.rar file to folder1 folder with unar (...
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When archiving files which command will preserve all file attributes including ACLs and SElinux security context?
I think this should be tar command however I am still wondering if using gzip can be still valid option?
Any ideas?
THanks
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What is the fastest / best compression for large dar archives
I'm using dar (like tar, but optimized for hard disks) for backing up RAID volumes. They're modest sized for RAIDs, at perhaps 3 - 10 TB. I'm aiming to put the results on 8 TB external drives, but ...
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information about .deb installation, many errors
I want to install a tar.gz file downloaded from here. I tried but I got an error.
I open the terminal in the folder and I'm trying to install.
Here is a screenshot of the file manager, showing part ...
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List only files and not directories in archive
I have a zip achieve like below
$ unzip -l 5124.zip
Archive: 5124.zip
Length Date Time Name
--------- ---------- ----- ----
0 01-13-2021 09:22 u/
0 01-13-2021 09:...
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How to create split tar archive in multiple stages to save space?
I have a very large folder that I am trying to create a tar archive of. The issue is I don't have enough extra free space to store the entire archive so I want to create say 100-200GB chunks of the ...
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Avoid to fully rewite a 7z file (10 GB) when updating a few files in it
Following the method explained in Incremental backup with 7zip, I can create an archive of 10 GB of documents with
7z u -up0q3r2x2y2z1w2 -mx=0 -p -mhe=on backup.7z /path/to/documents
It's encrypted (...
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got "tar: /path/to/my/dir: Not found in archive" error while verifying created archive
I did compress a directory to .tar.xz archive format with this command:
tar --create --verbose --file myArchive.tar.xz /path/to/my/dir
then,I tried to check health of created archive with following ...
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how can I parse parameter to XZ compressor in dar?
in tar I can use XZ_OPT='-9e --thread=10', how can I do this in dar. At least I want to be able to use multithread xz compressor. Any idea how to achieve this?
The same env does not work for dar, it ...
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Download content from a webpage using wget
I would like to download all the books from the gutenberg project using wget.
I want to get them in the epub format.
The link to the list is:
http://www.gutenberg.org/robot/harvest?filetypes[]=epub....
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how to search through a public email archive?
Email lists keep their emails in archives. Sometimes I want to search through those archive but I don't know how to do it. Of course I can open it one by one (actually month by month) and search the ...
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"xz : (stdout) : Write error: File too large" while writing a tar archive
I wanted to compress a directory whit size of about 25 GB to .tar.xz format using following command:
tar --xz --create --verbose --file myArchive.tar.xz /patch/to/my/dir
but got these error lines:
xz:...
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how to fix "tar: Cannot verify compressed archives" error?
I wanted to compress a directory into .tar.xz format and verify it after writing so I wrote a command like this:
tar --xz --create --verbose --verify --file myArchive.tar.xz /patch/to/my/dir
but it ...
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ZIP file not opening (corrupted)
I have been tasked with fixing a corrupted zipfile - the clue I have been given is to change its file header. I looked at the hex bytes using gHex and changed 50 4B 05 06 to 50 4B 03 04 but it's still ...
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