First step: code tags: 

#!/usr/bin/perl 

use Archive::Tar;

my $tar = Archive::Tar->new;
$tar->add_files('/var/lib/mysql/club -R');
$tar->write('club_db.tar'); 

use Net::FTP; 
print "putting the file on the server\n"; 
$ftpobj = Net::FTP -> new ("192.168.1.21");
$ftpobj -> login("my_name","my_pass"); 
$ftpobj -> binary; 
$ftpobj -> put ("club_db.tar"); 
$ftpobj -> quit;

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Second step: try it with one file: 
#!/usr/bin/perl 

use Archive::Tar;
use Net::FTP; 

my $tar = Archive::Tar->new; 
$tar->add_files('/var/lib/mysql/club/foo'); 
$tar->write('club_db.tar'); 

print "putting the file on the server\n"; 
$ftpobj = Net::FTP->new ("192.168.1.21");
$ftpobj->login("my_name","my_pass"); 
$ftpobj->binary; 
$ftpobj->put ("club_db.tar"); 
$ftpobj->quit;

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third step, try it with two files: 
my $tar = Archive::Tar->new; 
$tar->add_files(
  '/var/lib/mysql/club/foo',
  '/var/lib/mysql/club/bar');
$tar->write('club_db.tar');

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fourth step ...

figure out how to go from 2 files to n files. I would suggest first looking at IO::Dir if the directory contains no sub directories or File::Find if it does.

-derby

In reply to Re: tar help by derby
in thread tar help by snyder

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