Hi,

 

I used to run a script to compress and save a folder on a weekly basis : 

 

#!/bin/bash

# params
SRC=/mnt/user/
DST=/mnt/user/backup/snapshots/
TDY=$(date +"-%Y-%m-%d") 
MAX_DAYS=50
PWD=xxxx

# remove older files
find $DST* -mtime +$MAX_DAYS -exec rm {} \;

# back up directories
for dir in documents photos
do   
    7z a -mhe -mx0 -t7z -p$PWD $DST$dir$TDY.7z $SRC$dir
done

 

It looks not to run anymore (likely for a while), as 7z is no more there, and as far as I remember it was part of the NerdPack that looks deprecated.

 

How can I get 7z back ? Or change my script to something more up-to-date maybe ?

 

Many thanks

G

https://slackers.it/repository/slackware64-current/p7zip/

download the "p7zip-17.05-x86_64-1cf.txz" and put it in the extra folder on the usb, once in there, you can run "upgradepkg --install-new /boot/extra/p7zip-17.05-x86_64-1cf.txz" to install it without having to reboot.

 

if you want to change your script, thats up to you

A better option is to use docker, I use a command something like this to extract archives on the unraid command line. This command works in place of 7z x

I use

docker run --rm --workdir /data -it -v $PWD:/data crazymax/7zip 7z x