Tar unlike zip allow you to keep permissions. As such it is the defacto utility for making backups. Also if you can keep your user UIDs consistent across environments, tar allows for quick disaster recovery.
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Before using tar there are one critical behaviour to understand, always tar using relative paths. Otherwise you risk overwriting your data when untaring.
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Create linux tar gz (Gzip) archive
tar -czvf myarchive.tgz tar.gz ./mydirectory/We use the -t option to create an linux tar archive
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Here is what each flag does,
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-c, –create create a new archive
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Note that .tgztar.gz is the same thing as .tartgz.gz
Create linux simple tar archive (withouth compresion)
tar -cvf myarchive.tar mydirectory/
Extracting
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Extract linux tar gz (Gzip) archive
tar -xzvf mystuff.tgz
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and note the The f flag must come at the end or you will get an error.
Extract linux simple tar archive
tar -xvf mystuff.tar
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In some scenarios, you are moving between systems and want to extract maintaining permissions of users external to yourself. In this scenario you must ensure you UIDs are the same across systems,
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sudo tar -xzvf mystuff.tgz |
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We use -x to extract the files form the tar archive
-x, –extract, –get extract files from an archive
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# To tar the directory
sudo tar -zcvpf tarfile.tar.gz ./folder/
# To untar and gunzip the file in one command
sudo tar -zxvpf tarfile.tar.gz
# Encrypting a tar
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