Nov 22, 2009 #1 W wellammm New member Joined Nov 22, 2009 Messages 1 Reaction score 0 Points 1 I have a backup of my site as a .tar However, I would like to compress it to a .tar.gz How do I go about doing this? Any help is greatly appreciated!
I have a backup of my site as a .tar However, I would like to compress it to a .tar.gz How do I go about doing this? Any help is greatly appreciated!
Nov 22, 2009 #2 A annorax64 New member Joined Aug 12, 2009 Messages 16 Reaction score 0 Points 1 gzip filename.tar That will create filename.tar.gz P.S.: You don't need gunzip to uncompress a gzipped file. You can use: gzip -d filename.tar.gz
gzip filename.tar That will create filename.tar.gz P.S.: You don't need gunzip to uncompress a gzipped file. You can use: gzip -d filename.tar.gz
Nov 22, 2009 #3 A alk99 New member Joined Mar 15, 2008 Messages 29 Reaction score 0 Points 1 Be sure you have GNUzip installed, then gzip the tar file.