On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 11:57:07AM -0500, Rob Freeman wrote:
> Is it possible to just tar only the directory structure of a mount? We are
> looking into backing up the /home of a fedora box, but do not need the
> thousand of files in all the separate folders. Just the directory structure
> and permissions.
Use the "find" command to list all the directories, bash's "pipe a
command into a file descriptor" feature to feed this list of files to
tar, and tar's "--no-recursion" flag to tell tar not to back up the
files in the directories. Putting all this together, to back up the
contents of the current working directory, you could use a command
something like this:
$ tar cf dirs.tar --no-recursion --files-from <( find . -type d )
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