virt-tar-out - Man Page

 virt-tar-out -a disk.img /dir files.tar

 virt-tar-out -d domain /dir files.tar

 virt-tar-out -d domain /dir - | gzip --best > files.tar.gz

virt-tar-out packs a virtual machine disk image directory into a tarball.

The first parameter is the absolute path of the virtual machine directory.  The second parameter is the tar file to write.  Use - to write to standard output.

Download the home directories from a guest:

 virt-tar-out -d MyGuest /home - | gzip --best > homes.tar.gz

This command is just a simple shell script wrapper around the guestfish(1) tar-out command.  For anything more complex than a trivial copy, you are probably better off using guestfish directly.

Since the shell script just passes options straight to guestfish, read guestfish(1) to see the full list of options.

guestfish(1), virt-cat(1), virt-copy-in(1), virt-copy-out(1), virt-edit(1), virt-tar-in(1), http://libguestfs.org/.

Richard W.M. Jones (rjones at redhat dot com)

Copyright (C) 2011-2023 Red Hat Inc.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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To get a list of bugs against libguestfs, use this link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools

To report a new bug against libguestfs, use this link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools

When reporting a bug, please supply:

• The version of libguestfs.
• Where you got libguestfs (eg. which Linux distro, compiled from source, etc)
• Describe the bug accurately and give a way to reproduce it.
• Run libguestfs-test-tool(1) and paste the complete, unedited output into the bug report.

guestfish(1), guestfs(3), guestfs-hacking(1), virt-cat(1), virt-copy-in(1), virt-copy-out(1), virt-diff(1), virt-log(1), virt-ls(1), virt-tail(1), virt-tar-in(1).