Backup and entire dir using tar?

[Senectus .]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:22:33 -0800, Bob Nielsen <nielsen at oz.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 05:13:23PM -0800, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 06:53:38 +0800, Senectus . <senectus at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I want to tar up an entire directory and all the sub dir's in it as by
> > > keeping all the permissions and structures as is..
> > > I'm having a bugger of a time figuring out how it works.. whats the
> > > best practice for tar.gz a dir with all sub dir for later restore..?
> >
> > to create:
> >   tar -cvf backup.tar   directory_to_backup
> >
> > to extract:
> >  tar -xvf backup.tar
> >
> 
> The question was about tar.gz, so that would change to
> 
>  to create:
>    tar -cvzf backup.tar.gz   directory_to_backup
> 
>  to extract:
>   tar -xvzf backup.tar.gz

Thanks very much to all of you, that was perfectly helpful and now I
understand the man file a little better too :-)


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