File Backups/Restores via tar

Note: this requires shell access.

tar saves a collection of files as one big file and Optionaly compresses
common options
-c create a new tar file
-x extract files from a tar file
-z compress/uncompress
-v verbose - Tell me what your doing
-f filename


So, to store, and compress your entire public_html directory into a single file called site.tar.gz (.tar.gz is the extention for compressed tar files.), from your home directory you would use:

tar -cvzf site.tar.gz public_html/



to restore all the files you would, from your home directory, use:
tar -xvzf site.tar.gz


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