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How to create a tar file to a specific folder from a different folder

Rajendran

2/1/23, 12:07 PM

Hi guys i am new to linux.

I am trying to create a tar file from a different directory and want to be placed a specific directory.

I have tried this cmd

tar -cvf dailybackup.tar /root/filesfromlocalmachine/ -C /root/backup/

There is a folder in the name pf backup and i want the tar to be created there. But whenever i execute this the tar is been created at the folder where i am executing the command. Is there a way to create a tar file from a different folder.

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Rinzwind

2/1/23, 12:29 PM

Yes, put the directory in front of the "tar".

cd /
tar -cvf /where/to/put/it/dailybackup.tar root/backup/

and it will backup root/backup.

I would suggest to always makes backups with a relative path (as I used in my answer) otherwise you might overwrite the destination when you wanted to restore it elsewhere and then do a compare with the backup version.

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Rajendran

2/1/23, 12:39 PM

Thanks Rinzwind, can you tell how to exclude the parent directories which also being backuped. I want the files only to be backed up

Rajendran

2/1/23, 12:49 PM

Thanks Rinzwind,

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Ubuntu

bac0n

2/18/23, 7:31 AM

Whenever tar encounters a -C option, the current working directory changes, all subsequent options that follow are affected. It makes this option order-sensitive.

./a:      ./b:
file001   file002

e.g., using multiple -C options makes the second -C relative to the first.

$ tar -vcf archive.tar.gz -C ./a . -C ../b .  
./  
./file001  
./  
./file002

Because -C does not adjust the [FILE...] entry, path expansion (... globbing) will not work. However, in cases where globbing is required, --transform may be used.

$ tar -cvf archive.tar.gz \
    --show-transformed-names --transform='s:^./.*/::' ./[ab]/file00?
file001
file002

also, '--strip-components=<n>' can be used to strip leading components on extraction.

$ tar -vxf archive.tar.gz \
    --show-transformed-names --strip-components=2  
file001  
file002

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