Reply To: How to tar a site

I use this script, but I took the directory $HCISITEDIR/exec/processes out of making the tar, because it contains all the SMAT-files. These are so large, that the script caused the /tmp filesystem to completely fill up.

I don’t think you really need this directory. And if you do include these SMAT-files in the tar, you’d have one hell of a job emailing the tar to someone!  🙂

We do external support, where we sometimes need the site tarred and sent to us too. To that end we created a shell script called ‘mktar’ that’ll do the tarring for us. We place this in the $HCIROOT/usercmds/ directory so it can be called anywhere. Contents:

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