Creating an archive

Let's create a backup for all the bash scripts in the /home/elliot directory. As the root user, create a directory named backup in /root:

root@ubuntu-linux:~# mkdir /root/backup

To create an archive, we use the tape archive command tar. The general syntax to create an archive is as follows:

tar -cf archive_name files

The -c option is the shorthand notation of --create, which creates the archive. The -f option is the shorthand notation of --file, which specifies the archive name.

Now let's create an archive named scripts.tar in /root/backup for all the bash scripts in /home/elliot. To do that, we first change to the /home/elliot directory:

root@ubuntu-linux:~# cd /home/elliot 
root@ubuntu-linux:/home/elliot#

Then we run the command:

root@ubuntu-linux:/home/elliot# tar -cf /root/backup/scripts.tar *.sh

This will create the archive file scripts.tar in /root/backup, and there will be no command output:

root@ubuntu-linux:/home/elliot# ls -l /root/backup/scripts...