Creating a tarball of files on my site...

[UnnDunn]

I'd like to create a tarball of a directory on my site. It has to be a tarball in order to preserve permissions settings.

Is there a way to do this without installing some hokey shell access script?

[Galax]

sure, simply write a Perl or PHP script to tar the files for you. You can access command line tools from PHP using exec(), system() or passthru(). Unfortunately I do not know what the equivilent functions in Perl are though.