For the website I work on for my company I have a very large number of files in a single folder that is strictly data for the clients and not data I have to regularly modify. So when I’m doing a tarball/gzip of my files on the server I need to exclude that folder and all it’s subfolders from the process, here it is:
~# tar -czf /home/test/download.tgz ./ --exclude="*/events/auto/*" --exclude="*/images/waveforms/*"Till Next Time
Another quick post here. I can never remember the command for getting the size of a folder in linux. A quick search brought me here. Patched together a few commands and it goes like this:
~ du -sh /path/to/dir
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PS- isn’t it interesting that all my quick posts are about linux commands…
In working on my new prod server I only have write access to the symfony folder and www folder. This isn’t a big deal in actual development, just in backing up my files. I have become a zealot when it comes to backing up. Not just backing up files, but keeping a log of where the development stands for each backup.
For instance, before I launch the backend application in symfony, I do a backup and then I do another backup right after I launch it, before I make any modifications. This seems to help me when I mess something up so bad that I cannot recover from my mistakes.
Since I only have access to the two folders that I am going to be backing up, I don’t want to backup the already backed up files, I would start to take up an exponential amount of space for each backup. Did a quick google and found the solution here.
cp -r `ls --ignore=file1` destinationDir
Simple and it works. 
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