Comments on: How To: Compress Each Folder/Directory to Separate Archives in Linux

By: r3dux

r3dux — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:26:51 +0000

Well, yours seems pretty comprehensive with the date and all that – good job, and thanks for sharing.

Bash scripting is such fiddly stuff

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:04:11 +0000

Thanks that seems so much simpler than what i came up with.

for folder in $(find /backup/live/ -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -name '[!.]*' -exec basename  {} \;)
do
7z a -mmt /backup/archive/${folder}/${folder}-backup-$(date +%d-%m-%Y).7z /backup/live/${folder} >> /tmp/backup-7z
done

By: r3dux

r3dux — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 04:41:30 +0000

try:

#!/bin/bash
for folder in */
do
  7z a -mx9 -mmt "/backup/archive/${folder%/}.7z" "$folder"
done

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:34:21 +0000

Great example and very simple. However I have one question. Im trying to create the folder archives in a different folder e.g.

All folders in
/backup/live/*

are archived and sent to:

/backup/archive

im sure this would be quite simple but im not sure how to do this.

Thanks