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Shortcut for extracting homedir.tar subdirectories

Discussion in 'Data Protection' started by sebby, Dec 21, 2008.

  1. sebby

    sebby Well-Known Member

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    Hi everyone,

    Every other day I check the integrity of my account backups at random and uncompress the homedir and mysql directories on a local server at the office to rebuild the sites locally ("tar -xzvf username.tar.gz username/homedir/public_html username/mysql" use to give me the files I needed to do this).

    Starting with WHM 11.24, the homedir is now archived (homedir.tar) and nested in the main tarball. Can anyone suggest a neat command line to extract at once the mysql and public_html directories in this new setup (without the need to uncompress all the rest)?

    I thank you in advance for your suggestions.

    Sebby

    Running CentOS 5.2
     
    #1 sebby, Dec 21, 2008
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    You may try the following command to extract a specific file from your tar.gz file.

    tar -z --extract --file=yourbackup.tar.gz yourbackup/path/to/folder

    Assuming, you must know the hierarchy and paths of things in the backup before it was compressed.
     
    #2 JawadArshad, Dec 22, 2008
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    Thanks Howard but this is a no go as I want to extract in a single step the public_html directory included in the homedir.tar archive that is nested in the main tarball (username.tar.gz). I am looking for a way to pipe those 2 operations somehow...

    Cheers,

    Sebby
     
    #3 sebby, Dec 22, 2008
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    I just find out that I have the same problem :mad:

    please if someone know the answer, let me know :confused:

    thanks
     
    #4 jpgauvin, Feb 12, 2009
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