Depending on your platform and context, you may want to explicitly use the
--selinux --acls --xattrs
options.

cheers
stuart
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On Fri, 22 Sept 2023 at 07:32, Lolis, John <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Long live tar!  *T*ape *AR*chiving may be dead, but the command it had
> wrought shows no sign of aging.  It's part of an on demand backup approach
> for our web site.  A script kicks it off where it tars and bz2 compresses
> the entire document root to a 17GB file and then FTPs it to a test server
> where it gets extracted to the corresponding document root.
>
> I daresay that I don't ever recall running into a problem with the use of
> tar, including hitting a memory or file size limit (of course, omitting
> file system size limits which have nothing to do with a limitation of tar).
>
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> can’t be questioned.”*
> — Richard Feynman
> <
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> >,
> theoretical physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965
>
>
> On Thu, 21 Sept 2023 at 14:35, Esmé Cowles <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > That seems like a reasonable approach to me. Aren't .docx files
> > directories of XML files in a Zip container? If so, they probably
> wouldn't
> > compress much anyway.
> >
> > I recently had to download large sets of files from two different
> > services, and one of them used Zip and the other used uncompressed Tar.
> The
> > Zip packaging was awful because it needed to be split into a lot of files
> > to avoid having one file to too large (they were all around 2GB). But the
> > Tar worked much more smoothly, since it could just let me download a
> single
> > 50GB Tar file that worked fine.
> >
> > -Esmé
> >
> > > On Sep 21, 2023, at 2:29 PM, Amy Schuler <
> > [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > > does anyone use the tar command to group files anymore?  I'm looking to
> > > group some .docx files together to archive in a system that does not
> use
> > > folder hierarchies.  I'm thinking of doing this without compression.
> > > Thoughts/comments, or good alternatives?
> > > Thanks!
> > > Amy
> > >
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> > >
> > > Amy C. Schuler (she/her)
> > > Director, Information Services & Library
> > >
> > > Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies | 2801 Sharon Turnpike | Millbrook,
> > NY
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> >
>