Create a backups and a restore directory under $/$var on the file system.

Create a tarball of the $/$home directory using home.tar as the archive $($tarball$)$ file name and use the verbose switch to list all files being added to the archive. Create this archive in the $/$var$/$backups directory.

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Did you create the home.tar file in $/$var$/$backups$?$

Compress an archive

It may be a good idea to compress the file archives.

Change to the $/$var$/$backups directory by using the cd command.

Check the size of the $/$var$/$backups$/$home$.$tar archive file before compression and redirect the output to archive$\_$sizes.txt$.$

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Compress the $/$var$/$backups$/$home$.$tar archive using the gzip command.

Notice gzip automatically adds the gz file extension.

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Check the size of the $/$var$/$backups$/$home$.$tar archive file after compression and append the output to archive$\_$sizes.txt$.$

Compare to the size before compression.

Which file is smaller?

$/$var$/$log$/$backups$/$home$.$tar

$/$var$/$log$/$backups$/$home$.$tar.gz