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Archiving files

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- Let's talk about file archiving. Now, when you're doing a file archive, you need to use a tool. And a file archiving tool is just going to collect a group of files into a single package file to easily move them around on a single system. You can do this to back up files to record a DVD, a flash drive or other removable media. Or, transfer it across the network. Linux is going to support several archiving commands. But the most prominent of them is the tar and the zip. The tar programs name actually comes from the term, Tape Archiver. Now, regardless of it's background, tar is actually going to be used now days to back up or archive your data. It's a very popular tool that's used to archive various data files into a single file called an archive file. And when it does this, it's going to keep the original files on the disc as well. So, this can result in a very large archive file though. And because of that, we want…

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