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Type tar xjvf homes.tar /home . This creates a compressed archive of the home directory to the home directory of user root.

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Originally Posted by sigint-ninja (Post 5598761)

Type tar xjvf homes.tar /home . This creates a compressed archive of the home directory to the home directory of user root.

No. Note the 'x' in the command.

To create and compress use 'c'. Like so:

Code:

tar -cjvf compressed_files.tar /path/to/file(s)

From tar man page:

Code:

    -x, --extract, --get

          extract files from an archive



[...]



EXAMPLES

    Create archive.tar from files foo and bar.

          tar -cf archive.tar foo bar

    List all files in archive.tar verbosely.

          tar -tvf archive.tar

    Extract all files from archive.tar.

          tar -xf archive.tar

Best regards,
HMW

also roots $home is in /root (not /home)

Quote:

Originally Posted by schneidz (Post 5598774)

also roots $home is in /root (not /home)

Yes, this is also true.

Depends on whether or not you're in the home directory of user root or not.
homes.tar.bz2 will be created in the current directory.

Should be

Code:



tar cjvf homes.tar.bz2 /home

If that "." was part of the command it would be a mistake.