Tag: tar exclude

Linux Tar Command: Create, Extract, and Compress Archives
Tar is a widely used Linux archiving tool—short for “tape archive” that bundles multiple files and directories into a single archive (a tarball) while preserving paths, permissions, ownership, and timestamps, and it can also compress or extract those archives for efficient backup, distribution, and recovery.

tar.zst provide much faster compression and decompression. Compression ratio is much better than tar.gz

I compressed a folder with 231G files. Here is the result. tar.zst take only 16 minutes. tar.gz take 57 minutes. tar.zst file is 6 GB smaller.

zst not installed on ubuntu by default, you need it installed with command
```
sudo apt install zst
```
To create zst file, run
```
tar --zstd -cvf  backup.tar.zst FOLDER
```
To create a compressed tar (tar.gz or tgz) file, run
```
tar -czvf backup.tgz FOLDER
```
Replace FOLDER with name of the directory you need to compress. It will create a backup.tgz file with all content of the specified directory.

To extract a tar/tar.gz/tgz file, run
```
tar xvf file.tar.gz
```
Uncompress tar.bz2 file
```
tar -jxvf ncftp-3.2.2-src.tar.bz2
```
Create a tar file
```
tar -cvf file.tar FOLDER_NAME
```
Example
```
tar -cvf backup.tar public_html
```
Once backup.tar file is created, you can make it tar.gz with command
```
gzip backup.tar
```
Exclude a folder from tar file

To exclude a folder, you can use –exclude option.
```
tar cvf backup.tar --exclude=public_html/uploads --exclude=public_html/wordpress public_html
```
List content of a tar file
```
tar --list --verbose --file=BACKUP.tar.gz
```
If you want to exclude a folder from the file list, use
```
tar --list --verbose --file=BACKUP.tar.gz --exclude=home/haridy/Maildir
```
This will exclude all files that are inside folder “home/haridy/Maildir”. You can use multiple –exclude if required.

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Tag: tar exclude

Linux Tar Command: Create, Extract, and Compress Archives

List content of a tar file