question about archive and unarchive using tar command

@coop said:
If I understand what you are saying, just give the file name with a path when creating it

Isn't your way just archive the file to the current directory not a specific directory? What I am trying to do achieve is that saying I am under the default directory(home directory), and I want to archive whatever in the folder /media/sample to a specific folder for example /tmp/backup. Is this possible?

@luisviveropena said:
Hi @ariesjamie ,

What I am trying to do achieve is that saying I am under the default directory(home directory), and I want to archive whatever in the folder /media/sample to a specific folder for example /tmp/backup. Is this possible?

Of course that's possible. Take a look to the following example:

pwd
/home/luis
(That means I'm at my home directory)

tar -cf /tmp/backup.tar /opt

That will create a tar file of /opt and will save the result file to /tmp/backup.tar .

If you want to bzip2 it, you can do the following command:

tar -cjf /tmp/backup.tar.bz2 /opt

And you can check on the file creation by doing 'ls -l /tmp'.

Regards,
Luis.

Oh, I see, thank you Luis for the example. All clear now!