How do I compress the contents of a folder using the tar command on an Unix system over SSH?
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Sounds like a question for Server Fault (serverfault.com) – RonK May 21 '11 at 20:07
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@RonK: Could you explain why? Because it sure doesn't belong there... – Tamara Wijsman May 21 '11 at 21:32
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Because that is where I post such questions :-) . Any way - this comment was added before the question was migrated. – RonK May 22 '11 at 5:08
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From tar --help:
Examples:
tar -cf archive.tar foo bar # Create archive.tar from files foo and bar.
tar -tvf archive.tar # List all files in archive.tar verbosely.
tar -xf archive.tar # Extract all files from archive.tar.
So just use tar -cf archiveName.tar folderName.
If you want to compress it, add the -z or -j arguments to the recommendations above.
ssh user@host 'tar -C direcotry -czf archivename.tar.gz files/directory'
If the content you want to archive is in the home directory of the user - it should be:
ssh login_name@hostname 'tar cvf archive-name *'
If you need to navigate somewhere, try this:
ssh login_name@hostname 'cd some-dir;tar cvf archive-name *'
