Hello guys, first sorry for my basic english. I had to started to work with linux, even if for the moment a i make basics things i would like to do it in the better way as possible

Sometimes i have to move data between Ubuntu Workstation, mainly data from home profile but not only

if i want to backup the home folder of a standard user joe using my administrative accounts admin
i run the following command:

I want to save only the data preserving the permission(not temp files, configuration files, cache files, hidden files )

Can you tell me if the command below is a good choice?


When i restore the tar it recreate all the full path. So for example if i restore the tar inside /home/joe/Document/Restored_Files i will found

/etc

I would like to restore without full path as below:

I tried with the option -C but maybe i didnt undestand as it works...

can you help me?

giobaxx,

If you just want to avoid having the home directory in the path, you can manually cd into the home directory, before running tar; then instead of using for example /home/joe in the tar command, use the "period" character, like this: