Archive::Tar

Is it possible to use relative path names?

[tombola]

Is it possible to use the Archive::Tar module with relative path names, so that I can archive all files of the /home/domain1/public_html directory, and extract the archive file on another server: /home/domain2/public_html?

[mack]

There are a number of commercial options available for this, I also found this article that may be of use to you.

[madpenguin.org...]

This is very acheivable of you are intending to backup the tar file to another server on your network.

Mack.

[ckarg]

Yes, Archive::Tar does relative pathames. Here's a little command line script (call it at.pl) to demonstrate:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Archive::Tar;
die "Usage: at.pl <dir> [<dir>...]\n" unless @ARGV;
my $tar = Archive::Tar->new;
for my $dir (@ARGV) {
$dir =~ s'/+$'';
$tar->add_files(glob "$dir/*");
}
$tar->write('files.tar');

Start it from the root of the directory you want to save, e.g.:

$ cd /home/domain1
$ at.pl public_html

For full details, take a look at perldoc Archive::Tar. If you're using this for anything but a small number of files, you should probably use the os tar cmd instead. Also, this script is very basic - it doesn't do much error checking, and doesn't handle nested directories correctly.