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Backing up with tar - Linux Tutorial
From the course: LPIC-2 Linux Engineer (201-450) Cert Prep
Backing up with tar
- [Narrator] You're watching ITProTV. (funky music) (text whooshes) - Hello, welcome back to LPIC-2. I am Zach, this is Don, and he is our everything Linux guru, Don, okay, so we've talked about TAR before, and when you were done you had to rewind them. The old VCR days, the "Be Kind, Rewind". I'm talking to a whole generation that probably has no idea what this is, but with tape it's a very linear system. It was written in a particular order, and that's exactly how the TAR utility is. It takes all of your files and just lays them out one after the other inside of a single binary blob that is a TAR archive. Now we don't really use TAR to write to tape anymore. Well, most of us don't. There are plenty of people like data centers that still use tape because it's got such a high density. You can fit so much data on it, but for most people they don't use actual physical tape. But the TAR utility itself is used a ton. If you've downloaded any software for your Linux box, you've probably…
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