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  • Introduction
  • Tutorial
  • tar invocation
  • operations
  • Backups
  • Choosing
  • Date input formats
  • Formats
  • Media
  • Index

    --- The Detailed Node Listing --- Introduction

  • Book Contents What this Book Contains
  • Definitions Some Definitions
  • What tar Does What tar Does
  • Naming tar Archives How tar Archives are Named
  • posix compliance
  • Authors GNU tar Authors
  • Reports Reporting bugs or suggestions

    Tutorial Introduction to tar

  • assumptions
  • stylistic conventions
  • basic tar options Basic tar Operations and Options
  • frequent operations
  • Two Frequent Options
  • create How to Create Archives
  • list How to List Archives
  • extract How to Extract Members from an Archive
  • going further

    Two Frequently Used Options

  • file tutorial
  • verbose tutorial
  • help tutorial

    How to Create Archives

  • prepare for examples
  • Creating the archive
  • create verbose
  • short create
  • create dir

    How to List Archives

  • list dir

    How to Extract Members from an Archive

  • extracting archives
  • extracting files
  • extract dir
  • failing commands

    Invoking GNU tar

  • Synopsis
  • using tar options
  • Styles
  • All Options
  • help
  • verbose
  • interactive

    The Three Option Styles

  • Mnemonic Options Mnemonic Option Style
  • Short Options Short Option Style
  • Old Options Old Option Style
  • Mixing Mixing Option Styles

    All tar Options

  • Operation Summary
  • Option Summary
  • Short Option Summary

    GNU tar Operations

  • Basic tar
  • Advanced tar
  • extract options
  • backup
  • Applications
  • looking ahead

    Advanced GNU tar Operations

  • Operations
  • current state
  • append
  • update
  • concatenate
  • delete
  • compare

    How to Add Files to Existing Archives: --append

  • appending files Appending Files to an Archive
  • multiple

    Updating an Archive

  • how to update

    Options Used by --extract

  • Reading Options to Help Read Archives
  • Writing Changing How tar Writes Files
  • Scarce Coping with Scarce Resources

    Options to Help Read Archives

  • read full records
  • Ignore Zeros
  • Ignore Failed Read

    Changing How tar Writes Files

  • Prevention Overwriting
  • Keep Old Files
  • Unlink First
  • Recursive Unlink
  • Modification Times
  • Setting Access Permissions
  • Writing to Standard Output
  • remove files

    Options to Prevent Overwriting Files

  • Keep Old Files
  • Unlink First
  • Recursive Unlink

    Coping with Scarce Resources

  • Starting File
  • Same Order

    Performing Backups and Restoring Files

  • Full Dumps Using tar to Perform Full Dumps
  • Inc Dumps Using tar to Perform Incremental Dumps
  • incremental and listed-incremental The Incremental Options
  • Backup Levels Levels of Backups
  • Backup Parameters Setting Parameters for Backups and Restoration
  • Scripted Backups Using the Backup Scripts
  • Scripted Restoration Using the Restore Script

    Setting Parameters for Backups and Restoration

  • backup-specs example An Example Text of `Backup-specs'
  • Script Syntax Syntax for `Backup-specs'

    Choosing Files and Names for tar

  • file Choosing the Archive's Name
  • Selecting Archive Members
  • files Reading Names from a File
  • exclude Excluding Some Files
  • Wildcards
  • after Operating Only on New Files
  • recurse Descending into Directories
  • one Crossing Filesystem Boundaries

    Reading Names from a File

  • nul

    Excluding Some Files

  • problems with exclude

    Crossing Filesystem Boundaries

  • directory Changing Directory
  • absolute Absolute File Names

    Date input formats

  • General date syntax Common rules.
  • Calendar date item 19 Dec 1994.
  • Time of day item 9:20pm.
  • Timezone item EST, DST, BST, UCT, AHST, ...
  • Day of week item Monday and others.
  • Relative item in date strings next tuesday, 2 years ago.
  • Pure numbers in date strings 19931219, 1440.
  • Authors of getdate Bellovin, Salz, Berets, et al.

    Controlling the Archive Format

  • Portability Making tar Archives More Portable
  • Compression Using Less Space through Compression
  • Attributes Handling File Attributes
  • Standard The Standard Format
  • Extensions GNU Extensions to the Archive Format
  • cpio Comparison of tar and cpio

    Making tar Archives More Portable

  • Portable Names Portable Names
  • dereference Symbolic Links
  • old Old V7 Archives
  • posix POSIX archives
  • Checksumming Checksumming Problems

    Using Less Space through Compression

  • gzip Creating and Reading Compressed Archives
  • sparse Archiving Sparse Files

    Tapes and Other Archive Media

  • Device Device selection and switching
  • Remote Tape Server
  • Common Problems and Solutions
  • Blocking Blocking
  • Many Many archives on one tape
  • Using Multiple Tapes Using Multiple Tapes
  • label Including a Label in the Archive
  • verify
  • Write Protection

    Blocking

  • Format Variations Format Variations
  • Blocking Factor The Blocking Factor of an Archive

    Many Archives on One Tape

  • Tape Positioning Tape Positions and Tape Marks
  • mt The mt Utility

    Using Multiple Tapes

  • Multi-Volume Archives Archives Longer than One Tape or Disk
  • Tape Files Tape Files