Making a tarball file

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Making a tarball and adding a mysqldump to it then naming it as example.tar:



shell> tar cvf example.tar dump.sql

Making a tarball and adding all files in the current directory then naming it as example.tar:



shell> tar cvf example.tar *

Compressing the tarball by zipping it (.gz):



shell> gzip example.tar

Restoring a tarball gzip file example.tar.gz



shell> gunzip example.tar.gz

shell> tar xvf example.tar