Archiving (1)

• Useful to backup or release a set of files within 1 file

• tar: originally “tape archive”

• Creating an archive: tar cvf <archive> <files or directories> c: create v: verbose. Useful to follow archiving progress. f: file. Archive created in file (tape used otherwise).

• Example: tar cvf /backup/home.tar /home bzip2 /backup/home.tar