Archiving and Compressing

Archives combine many files into one. Compression reduces file size.

Command	Description
tar -cvf archive.tar folder/	Create archive
tar -xvf archive.tar	Extract archive
tar -czvf archive.tar.gz folder/	Create compressed archive
tar -xzvf archive.tar.gz	Extract compressed archive
gzip file	Compress a single file
gunzip file.gz	Decompress file

Example:

tar -czvf backup.tar.gz /home/user/data/