Instead of re-creating your tar archives when you need to add files, why not simply append those files? Jack Wallen shows you how from the command line and a GUI file manager on Linux. If you’re a ...

At some point in your Linux journey, you’ll need to be able to compress and decompress a folder from the command line. Jack Wallen shows you how. The Linux command line is an incredibly powerful tool.

Build a bash script that controls what, where, and when backups run. Schedule the executable backup.sh with cron and review logs and destination after runs. Test the script, use absolute paths to ...

There are a number of tools that you use to compress files on Linux systems, but they don't all behave the same way or yield the same level of compression. In this post, we compare five of them. There ...