Re: dar without recursion

Hi,

would something like:  dar -c file-backup -R directory -I "*" -P "*"  work ?

where

   -I "*" selects all files

   -P "*" ignores all directories

Regards Per


Den 21.05.2022 kl. 15.18 skrev Jean-Baptiste Denis:
> Hello,
>
> I've got a directory with an awful lot of files beneath it, at a single level. There is also a number of directories
> that I don't know in advance.
>
> directory/
> ├── dir00
> ├── dir01
> ├── dir02
> ├── dir03
> ├── dir04
> ├── dir05
> ├── dir06
> ├── dir07
> ├── dir08
> ├── dir09
> ├── dir10
> ├── file0000000
> ├── file0000001
> ├── file0000002
> ├── file0000003
> ├── file0000004
> [...]
> ├── file0999997
> ├── file9999998
> ├── file0999999
> └── file1000000
>
> I'd like to use dar on "directory" without considering all its subdirectories. From the documentation, it is not clear
> *to me* if I can get dar doing this without doing some prework before: first one to spot the directories using find or
> equivalent, and second one using dar excluding them ?
>
> I'm hijacking my own thread with some side questions related somehow to my initial question:
>
> 1. I'd like to have slices size up to a certain size OR containing at most N files, whatever comes first. I don't know
> if this would fit with dar internals. If that's the case, it could be a nice new option.
>
> 2. Is there a way to handle each slice independently (by running multiple dar commands for example) when extracting, or
> iit doesn't make sense ? I could imagine dar slices stored on an nfs server and multiple clients using dar (from an
> external script) on differents slice in parallel, potentially leveraging a datacenter/hpc network and a
> parallel/distributed filesystem.
>
> Thank you !
>
> Jean-Baptiste
>