Basically I have this directory structure in Linux.
Backup
Dir_1
Sub_Dir_1
file_1 90 GB
file_2 10 GB
Sub_Dir_2
file_1 20 GB
Restore
Dir_1
Sub_Dir_1
file_1 0 bytes
file_2 0 bytes
Sub_Dir_2
file_1 0 bytes
And the list goes on.
I can tar the whole directory but that would take a while because of the file sizes of the files inside each sub directory.
What I want is to create a script that will backup the whole directory structure and be able to restore the same directory on different computer but with all files inside the sub directory zeroed out.
All I want is their directory name and file names. Is this possible?