Regarding tar command

[Kavita Poonia]

Hello there,

I just want to make a tar of a directory which contain subdirectories. Which command should I issue for this to have a tar of that directory.

Thanks a lot!

[TT-Atif]

Hi
I am not a *nix expert but I use following command to tar a file
tar -cvf file.tar myfile.txt
This command is creating a tar file (file.tar) for the original file (myfile.txt).

Regards

[Kavita Poonia]

Thanks a lot Atif for your reply but i want to make tar of a directory containing subdirectories and not a file.

[Yngvi Thorfinnsson · Accepted solution]

Hi , by default the tar will also work on all sub-dirs, i.e.:
tar -cvf home.tar /home
will tar all files and directories under /home
(at least on HP-UX systems)

[Sajjad Sahir]

see above answer regarding tar
it will tar all files and subdirectories in that directory under home
if u want to extract it u can use tar -xvf command.

[Kavita Poonia]

Thanks a lot Yngvi and Sajjad. Your answers were really helpful.

[Sajjad Sahir]

if u want to take tar file has some limitation in size so normally in hp-ux peoples are using fbakcup command for backup
it will take more than 2gb size

[Kavita Poonia]

Okay!!!!!!!!!
We can use fbackup too