will tar and compress the contents of archive_directory/ into a file named archive_file.tgz.
v is not mandatory, but gives you the idea of the progress it's making.
On my PIII/733 it takes less than 15minutes to tar and gzip more than 600Mbyte of data.
raffaele
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I want back up a directory to an archive for my upcoming big wipe for 9.2.
The directory is about 630MB, and I left it going for 4.5 hours creating a tar.bz2, still wasn't done when I got up this AM.
Is it faster (but less compression) just to do tar.gz?
How long should it take?
I was using ROX Archive, which basically just calls the command line arguments.
I read "man tar" but I can't for the life of me figure out what arguments to use to create a tar.gz. Do I have to specify a destination file or just:
tar -cz homestuff?
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