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

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

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libguestfs-1.54.1                                  2025-02-18                                    virt-tar-out(1)

       Copyright (C) 2011-2023 Red Hat Inc.

       "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.

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

       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/.

        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