Many of us use tar (many times with gzip or bzip2) for archiving purposes. When performing such an action, a large file, usually, too large, remains. To extract from it, or to split it becomes an effort. This post will show an example of a small script to split an archive and later on, to…
Imagine Omniback 4.x to Omniback 5.5 upgrade on HP-UX. Imagine you assume all existing backup procedure (and you were told there is license only for disk agent) is based on filesystem backup. Assume you know there’s Oracle installed on this server, but no relevant agent (again, filesystem only, no DB agents…) You are cautious. You…
I always forget, and this blog is meant to help me remember. Found in Tar’s manual, are these simple directives: Have a file called file.tar, do: tar -xf file.tar full/path/without/trailing/slashes It can be a file or directory. You can have a list of files, such: tar -xf file.tar home/me home/you home/us/important-file Should do the trick.
I’ve been to Hostopia today. The land of hosting servers. I’ve had an emergency job on one Linux server, due to a mistake I’ve made. It appears that the performance hindrance of using raid0 instead of raid1 (Centos/RH default raid setup is raid0 and not raid1, which led me to this mistake) for the root…
