Using Tar for Backups
July 23rd, 2010
Update file that already exists in tar archive
[root@james ~]# tar -uvf ./test.tar updatefile
Append file that doesnt not exist to archive.
[root@james ~]# tar -rvf ./test.tar newfilesfile
Extract one file from archive.
[root@james ~]# tar -xvf ./test.tar somefile