make a tar file
Posted by: neutekz
Posted on: 2006-01-03 18:13:00
how do i make a .tar file of my whole directory (/home/nick/thisfolder/) ?
and how do i extract it later on the server?
all done via ssh
Posted by: neutekz
Posted on: 2006-01-03 18:13:00
how do i make a .tar file of my whole directory (/home/nick/thisfolder/) ?
and how do i extract it later on the server?
all done via ssh
Posted by: matttail
Posted on: 2006-01-03 18:28:00
typing "man tar" will get you the manual page for tar, that's very helpful. It explains what all of the possible options are and what they do. http://www.linuxheadquarters.com/howto/basic/tar.shtml this also looks like a nice webpage with examples.
Basically, it looks like this:
To create: tar -cvf whatever.tar folder
to extract : tar -xvf whatever.tar
-Matttail