Tar and Gzip

Create a Tar ball and gzip on the fly.

BACKUPFILE=FileName"_"`date '+%m%d%Y'`.tar.gz
tar cvf - /SourceDir | gzip -c > /directoryForGzipTarBall/$BACKUPFILE

Or we can use the -z option of the tar command to use gzip to compress the tar file.

tar -zcvf backup.tar.gz /u01/app/oracle/sourecedirectory

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keywords: tar gzip
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rdbms version: N/A
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