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Collection of tar commands. Great for backing up and restoring directories.
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| #Tar and gzip with excludes | |
| tar -zcvf backup.tar.gz --exclude="*.zip" --exclude="*.sql" * | |
| #Tar and gzip while putting file in foriegn location | |
| tar -zcvf /usr/local/backups/backup.tar.gz * | |
| #Just tar | |
| tar -cvf /usr/local/backups/backup.tar * | |
| #Restore from tar.gz | |
| cd /location/to/untar/to | |
| tar -zxvf /path/to/backup.tar.gz |
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