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Article: Hands on - Web development - Getting stuck in with tar. Turn your website into an archive file for easy transfer from one server to another.(Column)
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- Personal Computer World
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- January 1, 2005
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Byline: Nigel Whitfield.
In the last Web development column, we looked at a handy Linux/Unix program called wget, which can be used to fetch a website from another server, replicating the layout on your own.
Another useful program that we mentioned in passing is tar. Originally designed for manipulating tape archives (hence the name), it can also be a very useful way of packing up all the files that make up your website, so it can easily be shifted from one server to another. As promised, here's a quick summary of some of the ways a webmaster might find it useful.
First, let's look at how you can turn a website into an archive file, so you can ...