Thanks that worked great.
-- Andy
ps sorry about the multiple posts. I'm working on 5 different machines
today.
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, William Kendrick wrote:
> >
> >
> > I'm trying to archive my working directory and the sub folders with tar.
> >
> > I run the following...
> >
> > cd /home/httpd/html
> > tar cvfM `find . print` > backup.tar
> >
> > but it gives me errors and then stops.
> >
> > ideas?
>
> I hate tars that have plain files in them. :) When I open a tar, I want
> _one_ thing. A directory.
>
> The best way to do this is:
>
> cd /home/httpd/
> tar -cf ~/html.tar html
>
> or, if you want tar to gzip it as it goes:
>
> tar -czf ~/html.tar.gz html
>
>
> -bill!
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