cli-tarHow do I use the command line to create a backup tar file?
To create a backup tar file using the command line, you can use the tar
command. The basic syntax is tar -czf <filename>.tar.gz <source_directory>
. This will create a compressed tar file from the source directory.
For example, to create a tar file from the directory /home/user/Documents
with the filename backup.tar.gz
, you can use the command:
tar -czf backup.tar.gz /home/user/Documents
The parts of the command are:
tar
: the tar command-czf
: flags to set the compression level, create a tar file, and specify the filenamebackup.tar.gz
: the filename of the tar file to be created/home/user/Documents
: the source directory to be backed up
If the command is successful, no output will be shown. To verify that the tar file was created, you can use the ls
command to list the files in the directory.
For more information about the tar
command, you can refer to the GNU tar manual.
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