Linux Tar/Gzip a folder (backup)

Date: 2021-03-06 
# create zip file from folder contents (recursive)
tar -cvzf myfile.tar.gz folder

# extract
mkdir -p output/folder
tar -xvzf myfile.tar.gz -C output/folder

with progress

https://superuser.com/questions/168749/is-there-a-way-to-see-any-tar-progress-per-file

in=/input-folder
out=files.tar.gz
total_size=$(du -sb $out | awk '{print $1}')
tar cf - $in | pv -s $total_size | gzip > $out

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