How to Archive Folders in Linux (tar and gzip tutorial) - Linux Crash Course Series
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ค. 2024
- In the Linux Crash Course series, we'll go over one important foundational Linux topic each episode. This series includes tutorials, demonstrations, and more! In this episode, Jay will go over the basics of archiving folders on Linux systems. More specifically, examples of the tar and gzip commands are shown.
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00:00 - Intro
01:01 - Spin up your very own Linux-based cloud server with Linode (sponsor)
02:22 - Creating a copy of the /etc (used in the examples)
04:38 - The tar command
05:17 - Basic usage of the tar command
08:36 - Viewing the contents of a tar file
10:53 - Viewing the contents of a tar file (in verbose mode)
13:41 - How to extract a tar file
15:46 - The gzip command
16:42 - Basic usage of the gzip command
18:10 - Uncompressing a gzip file with the gunzip command
20.04 - Combining tar and gzip to create a compressed archive
22:58 - Viewing the contents of a gzipped tar file
23:33 - Extracting a gzipped tar file
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The best basic tutorial on tar and gzip tools I've ever found. Others just explain options approximately like this - "well these -cvf or whatever options are needed so everything is ok". Again, thank you for clarifying this.
Thank you for explaining what each of the flags mean in commands. So many Linux tutorials don't do that, and it drives me crazy.
Thank you for the video. I had actually gone through the entire part.
In my mind, archiving and compressing are the same operations on file just synonymous. But after the video I realized archiving and compressing are different operations. And we use it together that is, tar for archiving and this archived file will be compressed by gzip.
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You never disappoint Jay. I must always have gedit open when I hit play on your videos, even if I already know about whatever it is, you always manage to ninja in something I didn't know.🤣
WHat you didnt cover and I would consider important is "--exclude=" and the "--exclude" file list....I can never remember where to put this at...good thing I have a .txt cheat sheet.
Awesome as always Jay! Thanks.
I would consider myself an expert with compressed files in Windows, but a complete noob in Linux. I really needed this and it was awesome. Thank you so much.
I still use rar in Linux
Excellent, as always. I enjoyed this video a lot.
Perfect as always!🔥
great video! thank you for taking the time to make it.
Thanks Jay, yet another great video.
These videos are great. Thanks for posting Jay.
Glad you like them!
Awesome as always!
The best Channel to learn Linux... Thank you very much sir...❤️❤️❤️
Excellent! Thank you!
thanks dude. i enjoyed it
you're the best huge thank to you for all that knowledge that you allow us to access freely
Another well explained and demoed video
Sir Here etc file size is 12k and after compression why it is 1.5 Mb ??
That's the folder size, not the folder and files. If you want to see the size of the folder and files, check the size of etc_backup.tar file and compare that to the tar.gz file
Thank you for efforts and quality
Great work 🥳🥳🥳 Thank you 💜💜💜
Fantastic! Thanks! :)
Amazing my friend. Greetings from Brazil
Thanks a lot!
Thank you man! I like you way of explanation)
Thank you
Nice tutorial
Thank you !
Thanks for unravelling the mystery (for me at least) of tar and gzip. It's one of those things I knew I had to learn but never got around to. Problem solved!
@Jay thanks for the linux curse with these videos. They truly are good. AND! your audio is nice and loud.
Yeah, sounds really nice on a mobile device 👍.
Hi Jay, as usual, awesome content, are you planning on SELinux Crash Course?
excellent
Hello people. Jay's book "Mastering Ubuntu Server" is EXCELLENT. I am reading the 3rd edition.
If you do an advanced course on TAR, could you cover how to force an over write of an existing file from the tar archive.
Great stuff. I gotta get back to command line administration. GUI interface is handy, and easy; but there is so much more power and flexibility in the command line. What's next - CPIO?
*cpio* is very powerful and flexible when fed by *find*
I honestly did not realize that tar and gzip were separate commands that did different things!
Versatile tutorial, Jay 👍! Thanks and greetings from Ukraine 🇺🇦.
Hey man I wanted you yo know I talked to my University about adding your videos to the curriculum. They took it VERY serious. Expect a call man=)
Encryption could be a good next course.
Hey Jay is it just me or is your "journey" plaque not level in the background?
Fun video, but I would also like to know how to compress/zip to multiple files, and then reunite them
How can I delete large number of files from target.gz file?
Jay, am I safe to assume it will include hidden files as well?
yes
after changing my ownership permissions to my user I was unable to run the command 'tar -cf etc_bkp.tar etc/' -- the output I received was:
tar: etc/gshadow-: Cannot open: Permission denied
tar: etc/shadow-: Cannot open: Permission denied
tar: etc/gshadow: Cannot open: Permission denied
tar: etc/shadow: Cannot open: Permission denied
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
I then put sudo in front of it and I was allowed, how come I was unable even though my permissions were changed
Gunzip is terribly inneficient. It only uses one core of the proccessor. I used to do backups this way and changed to "pigz" wich is the modern versión of gunzip for multiprocessors.
i got a heart attack when you executed, rm -rf /etc
👍
Just use 7zip instead of having to do the tar and then the gzip.
I was surprised to see the original file disappear after gzip compressed it. That was scary. Where went the original?
If your purpose was to save room on the drive, you would want exactly that action to take place. The original is still there, it is just made to take up less room on your drive. Of course the main purpose is to create a backup of existing file(s) that does not take up much room on the backup location. AND Jay was careful to point out that you would NOT do this on your /etc directory, which would bork your system. Additionally, there are many more options to the commands which Jay did not mention because they were out of scope for the purpose of the video which was a basic intro to the usage of both tar and gzip and gunzip.
Nice video but I would never use etc as an example with people who don't know what they are doing. I know, you warned them, but I still cringe. What can go wrong? That is the first question to ask. Answer: plenty when the user doesn't know how a file system works.
Why not use filesystem compression and never worry about compressing your files ever again? I admit I have to deal with zipped stuff, so it's good to know how to best deal with them. Otherwise ZFS and BTRFS cover all my storage, incl. compression.
Totally different use case. And it doesn't help at all when you want to exchange sets of files with other people.