File archiving using tar command in CentOS Linux

Tar

• tar, command to compress and archive multiple files into one single backup file

• File compressed under tar, will have .tar  extension.

Command name

tar

Synopsis

tar [option]  tar_filename.tar  original_folder_or_file_name

Option

-c  create a tar file

-v  debugging mode, showing detail output

-f   specify an archive file

Note

The sequence of of tar must be correct.

Example

tar cvf archive.tar /var/log/messages /var/log/maillog tar: Removing leading `/' from member names /var/log/messages /var/log/maillog   ls -l total 48 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40960 Apr 17 19:24 archive.tar

We are making archive file (tar file) name archive.tar from 2 separate folders.

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