File Archiving

Tar

# Clean a tar-bombed directory
tar -tf <file.tar.gz> | xargs rm -r

# Remove VCS junk
tar --exclude-vcs -cf src.tar src/

# Creating a gzipped tarball
tar czfv tobemade.tar.gz tobezipped/

# Extract tar.gz
tar zxvf [file]

# Extract tar.bz2
tar jxvf [file]

# Extract to a directory
tar ... -C /send/to/

cpio

• Not POSIX 1996, but 2001
• predates tar!

flag	description
-i	input
-o	output
-p	pass-through

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# Initialize the repo
restic init -r $REPO_PATH

# Run a backup
restic backup -r $REPO_PATH $PATH_TO_BACKUP

# List snapshots
restic snapshots -r $REPO_PATH