{"id":4688,"date":"2021-03-06T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solidt.eu\/site\/?p=4688"},"modified":"2025-10-28T23:44:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T22:44:17","slug":"linux-tar-gzip-a-folder-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solidt.eu\/site\/linux-tar-gzip-a-folder-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux Tar\/Gzip a folder (backup)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height: 250px; position:relative; margin-bottom: 50px;\" class=\"wp-block-simple-code-block-ace\"><pre class=\"wp-block-simple-code-block-ace\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;left:0\" data-mode=\"sh\" data-theme=\"monokai\" data-fontsize=\"14\" data-lines=\"Infinity\" data-showlines=\"true\" data-copy=\"false\"># create zip file from folder contents (recursive)\ntar -cvzf myfile.tar.gz folder\n\n# extract\nmkdir -p output\/folder\ntar -xvzf myfile.tar.gz -C output\/folder<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>with progress<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/168749\/is-there-a-way-to-see-any-tar-progress-per-file\">https:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/168749\/is-there-a-way-to-see-any-tar-progress-per-file<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"shell\" data-enlighter-theme=\"\" data-enlighter-highlight=\"\" data-enlighter-linenumbers=\"\" data-enlighter-lineoffset=\"\" data-enlighter-title=\"\" data-enlighter-group=\"\">in=\/input-folder\nout=files.tar.gz\ntotal_size=$(du -sb $out | awk '{print $1}')\ntar cf - $in | pv -s $total_size | gzip > $out<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>with progress https:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/168749\/is-there-a-way-to-see-any-tar-progress-per-file<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidt.eu\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidt.eu\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidt.eu\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidt.eu\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidt.eu\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4688"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/solidt.eu\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9850,"href":"https:\/\/solidt.eu\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions\/9850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidt.eu\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidt.eu\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidt.eu\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}