Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 14 views

    Archive and Compression

    Uploaded by

    Rushi Bala Sunki

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Archive and Compression

    Uploaded by

    Rushi Bala Sunki
    14 views9 pages

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pptx, pdf, or txt
    14 views9 pages

    Archive and Compression

    Uploaded by

    Rushi Bala Sunki

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pptx, pdf, or txt
    You are on page 1of 9

    WELCOME TO COSS VIRTUAL TRAINING

    RedHat

    TODAY'S AGENDA

    1. ARCHIVING IN LINUX (tar)


    2. COMPRESSING IN LINUX
    • BZIP
    • GZIP
    • XZ
    RedHat WHAT IS ARCHIVING IN
    LINUX?
    The process of gathering large sets of files into a single file is called as archive.
    It is a combination of multiple files into a single file.
    example- if you download multiple photo or file from google drive it will be
    downloaded in a single rar file and then you need to extract it.
    RedHat COMMAND TO ARCHIVE:

     Archiving and compressing files are useful when creating backups


    and transferring data across a network.

     One of the oldest and most common commands for creating and
    working with backup archives is the tar command.

     A tar archive is a structured sequence of file data mixed in with


    metadata about each file and an index so that individual files
    can be extracted.
    RedHat
    TAR COMMAND OPTIONS:

    [user@host ~]$ tar -cf archive.tar file1 file2 file3


    LISTING CONTENTS OF AN ARCHIVE?
    RedHat
    [root@host ~]# tar -tf /root/etc.tar

    EXTRACTING FILES FROM AN ARCHIVE:

    A tar archive should usually be extracted in an empty directory to


    ensure it does not overwrite any existing files. When root extracts
    an archive, the tar command preserves the original user and group
    ownership of the files. If a regular user extracts files using tar, the
    file ownership belongs to the user extracting the files from the archive.
    EXAMPLE OF EXTRACTING ARCHIVE
    RedHat
    [root@host etcbackup]# tar -xf /root/etc.tar

    NOTE:

    By default, when files get extracted from an archive, the umask is


    subtracted from the permissions of archive content. To preserve
    the permissions of an archived file, the p option when extracting an
    archive.

    Example- #tar -xpf /root/myscripts.tar


    RedHat COMPRESSION
    File compression is a process of "packaging" a file (or files) to use
    less disk space. Compression software allows you to take many files
    and compress them into one file, which is smaller than the combined
    size of the originals.
    The tar command supports three compression methods. There are
    three different compression methods supported by the tar command.
    The gzip compression is the fastest and oldest one and is most widely
    available across distributions and even across platforms. bzip2
    compression creates smaller archive files compared to gzip but is
    less widely available than gzip, while the xz compression method
    is relatively new, but usually offers the best compression ratio of
    the methods available.
    RedHat
    OPTION TO COMPRESS FILES
    RedHat

    THANK YOU !
    FUTURE ADMINS.

    You might also like