I'm trying to backup the whole volume of a drive. I want to have it password-protected
This is what I did
zip -er archive.zip /Volumes/Storage/
But I'm getting zip warning: name not matched
Thanks!
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`zip` is a tool to package and compress (archive) files. My suggestion is to first create a tarball (with `tar`) with the whole volume of the drive and afterwards compress it. – Paulo Tomé Dec 25 '19 at 02:19
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See [How would I use tar for full backup and restore with system on SSD and home on HDD?](https://askubuntu.com/questions/524418/how-would-i-use-tar-for-full-backup-and-restore-with-system-on-ssd-and-home-on-h) – Paulo Tomé Dec 25 '19 at 02:30
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ok I just tried with tar, it seemed to work, but it takes forever. any other way to accomplish this? thanks! – ordinaryman09 Dec 25 '19 at 03:14
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Have you compressed data? What flags did you use in your tar command? – Paulo Tomé Dec 25 '19 at 03:22
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See [Fastest way combine many files into one (tar czf is too slow)](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/19129/fastest-way-combine-many-files-into-one-tar-czf-is-too-slow) – Paulo Tomé Dec 25 '19 at 03:31
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I did tar -cvpzf – ordinaryman09 Dec 25 '19 at 03:32
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If its taking too long drop the `-z` flag. Compress and encrypt data when the tarball is complete. – Paulo Tomé Dec 25 '19 at 03:36
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was trying to back it up to S3, but they have limit on the single file size. How are you doing your backups? – ordinaryman09 Dec 28 '19 at 04:48
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If there is a size limit you may split the tarball into smaller files using the `split` utility. – Paulo Tomé Dec 28 '19 at 11:20
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See https://www.tecmint.com/split-large-tar-into-multiple-files-of-certain-size/amp/ – Paulo Tomé Dec 28 '19 at 11:20