How To Tar A Bunch Of Folders

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todays question is: how do you tar a bunch of folders?

the answer is easy.

login to your dedicated server from Webune as root

once you are logged in you will be able to send shell commands.

so lets say you want to make a backup copy of your www pages, easy. this is how you do it

go to your var directory

SHELL COMMAND

there in the /var directory, you will find the directory called www - the www is the location of all your web files are located for your website.

so to backup all the files in your website you can use tar. lets say we want to name our backup file as: www-backup.tar.gz so this is how we would do it:

SHELL COMMAND

wow!!! amazing, you will see your server will create a file called www-backup.tar.gz, now you can download to your computer and save it as your backup, it will contain all the files from your www folder

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