Hits: 60  TAR – Tape Archive  (application/x-tar) A common archive format used on Unix-like systems. Generally used in conjunction with compressors such as gzip, bzip2, compress or xz to create .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar.Z or tar.xz files. # tar -cvvf foo.tar foo/ –exclude=”/home/svnlabs” # tar -cvzpP –file=/home/backup.tar.gz –exclude={/dev/*,/proc/*,/sys/*,/tmp/*} / tar work with directory “/” except for /dev, [...]