How to untar certain folder only with SSH

[bachbell]

i got a full back up of my site and its size is 70gb my vps have 100gb max ... i dont want the heavy files cause just are mp3 or videos that download with torrent , but want my file scripts ...


how can i do that
?


big thnks

bachbell Reviewed by bachbell on 1st Aug 2012. How to untar certain folder only with SSH i got a full back up of my site and its size is 70gb my vps have 100gb max ... i dont want the heavy files cause just are mp3 or videos that download with torrent , but want my file scripts ... how can i do that ? big thnks Rating: 5

[XSLTel]

tar -xvf site-backup-archive-file.tar(.gz) script-folder-name

that's it

Highest Regards
Mohammed H

[bachbell]

i enter the command and seems like was it working but i waited some minutes and nothing happens

[ibby]

that means you screwed up |:

[bachbell]

ok nice very helpful

[XSLTel]

no its not screwed up but I assume it will need to read the whole archive before it extract the files.

also I have added -v to command so you can see which files are being extracted.

Highest Regards
Mohammed H

[bachbell]

no its not screwed up but I assume it will need to read the whole archive before it extract the files.

also I have added -v to command so you can see which files are being extracted.

Highest Regards
Mohammed H

soved but im doing in different way


i open two sessions in shh


1.- for extract all files 2.- to delete all the unnecessary spaces with rm -rf command to delete files faster