Extract backup_files.tgz on Centos 6.2 to a directory
 

Hello

I was login to ssh and from inside the directory i was run this:

And i got on home directory the file backup_files.tgz

Now from home directory how can i extract all files and folders and overwrite the contents back to the folder public ?:

?

Thank you

p.s: I was try from home directory this:

But this was create :

:(

Hi,

Assuming that "/home/nginx/domains/mydomain.com/public/" was all there is in the archive,
then change your dir to /
and execute
tar xvf backup_files.tgz

it will extract from archive relative to your current working dir /
(and if the archive contents were home/nginx/domains/mydomain.com/public/ it will overwrite everything in there with files from archive)

or

you can go to "/home/nginx/domains/mydomain.com/public//home/nginx/domains/mydomain.com/public/myfileshere" directory
and copy everything from this folder to your 'original' where it should be:

How?

and if i go to another path that the file backup_files.tgz is not there how it will work?

Thank you

well

how do you change the working directory is a simple command:
and if you want to extract the archive, you should know where it is located, so execute:

The last command is:

or just:

?

Thank you

this is right:
/ $ characters were some prompt 'garbage'.