How do I tar files between certain dates?

[jared71]

Hello,

I need a hand here.

I have several gig's of production reports which I need to tar up and move to a different server. I've already moved files from the past two years up to May 30th. I need to move the remaining files and directories from May 30th to the present and dump them into the new directory structure which was coppied over 5/30.

Here's the dilema. All the files fall under a directory structure created around groups ranging betwwen 1000-9000, under those, each group has a user directory between 01-99, then in each of those here are several hunderd reports (files dating back a few years). Unfortunaetly, when I try to tar up the reports from the last month,

>find . -ctime -30 -exec tar -cf /dir/file.tar {} \;

I end up tarring up way more than I need. Can anyone suggest a way to make this work?

Thanks in advance.

Jared

 

[MikeLacey]

ctime -30 looks like the way to go to me, what is it doing wrong? Mike
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[jared71]

It was tarring up way too much info. I was using a verbose mode, and all of the ctimes looked correct, but I know for a fact that our application wouldn't have generted a gig of reports in that time period. It almost looked as though it would read some of the directories, and tar the entire contents instead of just the newly created files.

jared

 

[MikeLacey]

Have you looked at the -type parameter in the find command?

-type c True if the type of the file is c, where c is b, c, d, D, f, l, p, or s for block special file, character special file, directory, door, plain file, symbolic link, fifo (named pipe), or socket, respectively.
Mike
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