Re: [CODE4LIB] DANNNG Tool Selection Factors ready for your critical eye and insightful review

Greetings! Here is a reminder that our call for comments on the Tool Selection Factors is still open! You have through the end of this month to offer us your insights. From: Dianne Dietrich Date

[CODE4LIB] tar without compression? General comments welcome

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 (sh

Re: [CODE4LIB] tar without compression? General comments welcome

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 T

Re: [CODE4LIB] tar without compression? General comments welcome

On Sep 21, 2023, at 2:29 PM, Amy Schuler wrote: > 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 a

Re: [CODE4LIB] tar without compression? General comments welcome

Tar works fine with or without compression. If space isn't an issue and you have a fast connection, it can be faster to simply transfer uncompressed than to go through the compression/decompression overhead. kyle On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 11:35 AM Esmé Cowles wrote: > That seems like a reasonable

Re: [CODE4LIB] tar without compression? General comments welcome

Tar is a good, general purpose tool that is still very widely used. The main question is whether the system you will eventually use to unpack those files will also have tar. If it is the same system, you're good. If it is a different system, you would be wise to check first before relying on tar i

Re: [CODE4LIB] tar without compression? General comments welcome

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

Re: [CODE4LIB] tar without compression? General comments welcome

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 wrote: > Long live tar! *T*ape *AR*chiving may be dead, but the command it ha