Today I tried to compress some folders containing backup files from last year. I right-clicked on the folders and selected compress as tar.gz. I let it work, and found that hours later, the folders were still compressing. How long is it supposed to take, anyway? I was trying to compress the two sets of backups simultaneously; together they're around 1.5 GB. They have many subdirectories.
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How do I compress then encrypt those files, and can I add any commands that will do this to my existing bash script?
I am running Ubuntu 10.04
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my script looks like this :
Code:
BACKUPDATE=$(date +%d%m%Y)
cd /home/n3t
echo "taking Backup of your home/n3t/Downloads dir"
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Code:
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System Info:
SunOS 5.8 Generic_117350-06 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise
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An error occurred while adding files to the archive.No such file or directory
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Code:
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