centos vps help

[persnalid]

heyy guys!!! I have a centos vps but i have not installed any control panel there. I want to take backup of a particular folder!!! Like i want to zip it or rar it and download to my pc... How can i do that??

persnalid Reviewed by persnalid on 30th Nov 2010. centos vps help heyy guys!!! I have a centos vps but i have not installed any control panel there. I want to take backup of a particular folder!!! Like i want to zip it or rar it and download to my pc... How can i do that?? Rating: 5

[somik]

tar -cf archive.tar /location/of/folder

Download to pc via http download or use WinSCP.

[persnalid]

Actually it was edited by a script so i dont know what all file names are there!!! So, would winscp solve this problem??

[sickboy]

DO what somik said ! will take no longer than 2 minutes !

[sloddl]

to make a tar file:

tar -cvf tastro.tar /path/to/directory

to make a tar.gz file:

tar -czvf tastro.tar.gz /path/to/directory

[vgnheart]

Connect to your VPS using WinSCP. Look for your files and download it.

If you know exact file/folder u can zip it and download like others said in their replys

[Nick]

Have you turnt it off and on again?

[aapkae]

you can install rar there,its easy to manage folders and zip them using that

[persnalid]

Thanks a lot guyz!!! It worked out!!!