someone who has used tar :)

[Fandelem]

please give me the format to tar up /backup and then all the subdirectories and files under it.. also is there an all in one method to tar and gzip it? to make it "backup.tgz"? i have known how to (unzip) tar -zxvf forever but i've never bothered knowing how to (zip) tar -(what goes here to zip stuff :b)

thanks guys,

~kyle

[iDxMan]

Something like :

tar -zvvcf filename.tgz /path/to/stuff

Note: tar removes the leading '/' . Remember that when decompressing.

-r

[Malador]

tar cvfz filename.tgz /backup/*

Cheers
Malador