make a zip of old UBB directory?

*Evoir* · 06-08-2001, 01:00 AM

i ahve no idea how to do this, but I'd like to make a zip of my old UBB and then download it and delete it off the servers. Perhaps 2 zips, one for cgi-bin stuff and one for non cgi-bin stuff.

I just want to archive the files...just in case. (switched over to VB tonight)

I'd like to get them off the server as we are OUT of space. once we get them off, we should be fine on space.

Can someone tell me exactly how to do this? I know so little about telnet... but can follow directions.

*Jeff* · 06-08-2001, 02:17 AM

cd /path/to/your/directory

(change to the directory that you want to zip)

tar -czpf filename.tar.gz *

*jimbo* · 06-08-2001, 02:32 AM

Evoir,

You finally took the plunge, ay?

I'm glad it all worked out for you

.

-jim

*Mandi* · 06-08-2001, 01:18 PM

Hey Evie . . . don't neglect the forum links on your front page

!

They look good, congrats

!

*Evoir* · 06-08-2001, 01:46 PM

Thanks you guys!

I'm so much happier. The tools vB provides are way much better

yeah!

still tweeking, but the goal was to make them look as similar as possible.

*Evoir* · 06-08-2001, 03:09 PM

Jeff, I did what you said and this is the response from telnet:

[curvem@FQ-Dexter:/big/dom/xcurvemag/cgi-bin ]$ tar -czpf ubb.tar.gz
tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive
Try `tar --help' for more information.

I cd'd into the cgi-bin and then tried to zip the ubb directory. Is that right?

**Arthur** · 06-08-2001, 03:16 PM

Quote:

tar -czpf ubb.tar.gz

You have to tell tar which files to archive; put an asterisk behind the command to archive all files; tar -czpf ubb.tar.gz *

*Evoir* · 06-08-2001, 03:37 PM

I am in the cgi-bin (and the ubb folder is inside of that)

and I typed what you said and this is the reply. (I think the use of cowardly is funny!)

[curvem@FQ-Dexter:/big/dom/xcurvemag/cgi-bin ]$ tar -czpf ubb.tar.gz*
tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive
Try `tar --help' for more information.

**Arthur** · 06-08-2001, 04:01 PM

Put a space between ubb.tar.gz and the asterisk...

*Evoir* · 06-08-2001, 07:11 PM

I just lost 170 MB

tee hee.

Thanks you guys. I have my redirect and zip and everthing