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Depending on your platform and context, you may want to explicitly use the --selinux --acls --xattrs options. cheers stuart -- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky 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). > > John Lolis > Coordinator of Computer Systems > > 100 Martine Avenue > White Plains, NY 10601 > > tel: 1.914.422.1497 > fax: 1.914.422.1452 > > https://whiteplainslibrary.org/ > > *“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that > can’t be questioned.”* > — Richard Feynman > < > https://click.fourhourmail.com/5qure95xkf7hvvo93wh2/7qh7h8h05vr4zrtz/aHR0cHM6Ly9lbi53aWtpcGVkaWEub3JnL3dpa2kvUmljaGFyZF9GZXlubWFu > >, > 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 > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Amy C. Schuler (she/her) > > > Director, Information Services & Library > > > > > > Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies | 2801 Sharon Turnpike | Millbrook, > > NY > > > www.caryinstitute.org > > >