tar command help
 

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

tar -cf target.tar directory

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

rm -r dir

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