To create a compressed tar archive, one of the following tar options can be specified:
- z for gzip compression (filename.tar.gz or filename.tgz)
- j for bzip2 compression (filename.tar.bz2)
- J for xz compression (filename.tar.xz)
Compress /etc directory (using c option) as /root/etcback.tar.gz using following command
[root@saidrasel~]$ tar czf /root/etcback.tar.gz /etc
Compress /etc directory (using j option) as /root/etcback.tar.bz2 using following command
[root@saidrasel~]$ tar cjf /root/etcback.tar.bz2 /etc
Compress /etc directory (using J option) as /root/etcback.tar.xz using following command
[root@saidrasel~]$ tar cjf /root/etcback.tar.xz /etc
Extract a compress tar ( x option) archive using following command
[root@saidrasel~]$ mkdir -p /tmp/extract
[root@saidrasel~]$ cd /tmp/extract
[root@saidrasel extract]$ tar xzf /root/etcback.tar.gz
Extract a compress tar ( j) archive using following command
[root@saidrasel~]$ mkdir -p /tmp/extract
[root@saidrasel~]$ cd /tmp/extract
[root@saidrasel extract]$ tar xjf /root/etcback.tar.bz2
Extract a compress tar ( J) archive using following command
[root@saidrasel~]$ mkdir -p /tmp/extract
[root@saidrasel~]$ cd /tmp/extract
[root@saidrasel extract]$ tar xJf /root/etcback.tar.xz
