how to take tar backup of the contents of a file

UNIX AIX
1

Hi
I have a file named files.2.backup which holds the location of some directory and file i,e

$ cat files.2.backup
/d01/app/oracle/product/7.3.2/dbs/fortest_syst_01.dbf
/d01/app/oracle/product/7.3.2/dbs/fortest_temp_01.dbf
/d01/app/oracle/product/7.3.2/dbs/fortestdata_01.dbf
/d01/app/oracle/product/7.3.2/dbs/ora_control5
/d01/app/oracle/product/7.3.2/dbs/ora_control6
/d01/app/oracle/product/7.3.2/dbs/fortest_redo_01.dbf
/d01/app/oracle/product/7.3.2/dbs/fortest_redo_02.dbf
/d01/app/oracle/product/7.3.2/dbs/fortest_redo_03.dbf
/d01/app/oracle/product/7.3.2/network/admin
/d01/app/oracle/product/7.3.2/dbs/initfortest.ora

How can I take tar backup all of these files and directory..
I am using AIX4.3 and my UNIX knowledge is not so high....

Could you please help me to complete my task..

Thanks
suman

2

Hi.

Use the -L option.

i.e.

tar cvf myArchive.tar -L files.2.backup

The man page has more information and examples:

man tar
3

Open the man page for tar

man tar

When the man page is open, type shift+7, ie. a slash / and then enter the search string:
Examples

You will find plenty examples how to use tar.

4

thanks for reply
i have tried

tar cvf files2backup.tar -L files.2.backup

and when i issue

tar -xvf files2backup.tar

i got back the original files.2.backup

but i want to backup those files and directory mentioned in the files.2.backup
i,e, in the 9th line of files.2.backup, i mentioned /d01/app/oracle/product/7.3.2/network/admin . this is directory path and there are many files in that directory. I to backup all these files that is the complete directory

5

You can also use for loop as shown below.....

for i in ` cat files.2.backup`
do
tar -cvf $i
done

HTH

6

Try

tar -cvRf files2backup.tar files.2.backup