Hey guys complete n00b here so I'll try my best at explaining.
I'm creating a backup and restore utility and decided to use tar. I create a backup folder in each user's account and when backing up (say word processing files), I use the following:
tar cvf /home/user/backup/wpbackup.tar /home/user/wp/*
When I go to extract, though, I'm using the following command:
tar xvf /home/user/backup/wpbackup.tar
Problem is that this creates a /home/user/wp/ path IN the backup directory, as well as extracting the files in there. What I would like to know is how to fix this so that the extracted files from wpbackup.tar are put back into the /home/user/wp/ directory.
That's my primary aim^, however if I can't get that working is there any way to extract the contents of the tar file into the directory it was created in (/backup), so I can just copy them across to the user's appropriate directory?
Cheers for any help,
Ewan