How to Use Tar Command Effectively in Linux For Good Backup Solution | Linux Today

How to Use Tar Command Effectively in Linux For Good Backup Solution

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Magesh
Dec 21, 2016

Tar is the most commonly used command in Linux for creating a archive file. It saves multiple files, folders & other file formats (zip, gzip, bzip2 & tar) into a single archive file. Many of us very frequently uses three operations create, list & extract & two options file & verbose with tar to dealing the backups and restore.

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