Packing LLM Data Files into an Uncompressed ZIP
When building LLM services, we often need to move an LLM that has already been downloaded once to a different server.
(When you want to use the same LLM model on servers with an identical configuration, this is faster than downloading it again from Hugging Face, for example.)
When a folder is awkward to move as-is, we compress it into a ZIP archive.
With no compression, even multi-gigabyte data can be archived quite quickly.
Installing ZIP
sudo apt install zip -y
Creating an uncompressed ZIP
Specify the target LLM directory and run the following command.
For example, if the LLM directory is /mnt/d/RakutenAI-7B-chat-awq, then:
cd /mnt/c/RakutenAI-7B-chat-awq
zip -r -0 /mnt/c/RakutenAI-7B-chat-awq.zip .Command details
cd /mnt/c/RakutenAI-7B-chat-awq: Change into the folder to be archived.zip: Run the zip command.-r: Recursively include the files and subfolders inside the folder.-0: Do not compress (store only)./mnt/c/RakutenAI-7B-chat-awq.zip: Path of the output ZIP file..: Archive the contents of the current directory.
The reason for the cd is so that the directory structure is not reproduced inside the ZIP.
How to extract the ZIP
unzip /mnt/c/RakutenAI-7B-chat-awq.zip -d /mnt/c
