tar command help

[Ice]

How would I do this using the tar command. I need to backup a directory or folder on my server using tar and I can't remember the command.

Say I'm in the folder movies on my server and inside movies I have the folder called one. From movies what would the command be to create a compressed file one.tar for example

[Trafficbrokercom]

tar -cf target.tar directory

[Magg]

tar -cf one.tar one


to extract:

tar -xf one.tar one

[xenophobic]

Originally posted by Magg
tar -cf one.tar one


to extract:

tar -xf one.tar one

tar is only an archive, to create compressed backups you would need to do
tar -zcf one.tar.gz one

to extract
tar -zxvf one.tar.gz

[Juicy D. Links]

rm -r dir

[Ice]

Originally posted by juicylinks
rm -r dir