{"id":362,"date":"2023-03-25T01:26:57","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T01:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jibsheet.net\/linux\/?p=362"},"modified":"2023-03-25T01:26:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T01:26:57","slug":"finding-files-and-using-tar-for-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jibsheet.net\/linux\/index.php\/2023\/03\/25\/finding-files-and-using-tar-for-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"finding files and using tar for backup."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most common solution is to use find with xargs to backup<\/p>\n<p>Something like this:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"generic\">find \/var\/www\/html\/ -type f -name my*.csv  -print0 | xargs -0 tar cfvzP \/backupdir\/backupfile<\/pre>\n<p>The more files you have, especially over 1000 &#8211; this will produce weird results.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u00a0Number of files in the archive doesn&#8217;t match the output of the find<\/li>\n<li>xargs will split the input and the archive can be overwritten several times. getting a much smaller tar.gz than expected.<\/li>\n<li>only the most recent stuff or depending on your find &#8211; only the last 100 or even worse are in the archive.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you have large numbers &#8211; like 4000 to 10000 &#8211; consider breaking it up.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a solution that works no matter how many files within reason<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"generic\">find \/var\/www\/html -type f -name my*.csv  -print0 | tar -czvf \/backupdir\/backupfile --null -T -<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most common solution is to use find with xargs to backup Something like this: find \/var\/www\/html\/ -type f -name my*.csv -print0 | xargs -0 tar cfvzP \/backupdir\/backupfile The more files you have, especially over 1000 &#8211; this will produce weird results. \u00a0Number of files in the archive doesn&#8217;t match the output of the find xargs will split the input [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - 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