Rar is very popular compression format used for different purposes. A lot of files like documents, image files, source code etc. are compressed using rar compression format. In this tutorial we will look how to...
tar and gz formats very popular in Linux, Unix and BSD world. A lot of files like source code, backup, configuration files etc. are compressed with this two formats. As a Linux system administrator we generally face...
One of the most important task of a database administrator is backing up and restoring databases. MySQL is a popular database server and provides tool named mysqldump for backup and restore operations. We will look different...
7zip is popular tool and compression format. 7zip supports wide range of platforms and operations systems like Windows , Linux , BSD, MacOS etc. Syntax We will use following syntax for 7z command.
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7z <command> [<switches>...] <archive_name> [<file_names>...] |
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Gzip is actually a file format which is a compressed file. There is also a tool named gzip which is used to compress and decompress files. Gzip is developed in 1992. It use DEFLATE algorithm...
Logrotate main purpose is to easy administrator of Linux logs. It is very talented tool it can Automatic rotation Compression Removal Mailing Logs Logrotate can be configured and run accordingly with configuration files. We will...
Winzip, Winrar are popular packaging and compression tools for Windows operating system. Winzip was very popular in old times and this made zip compression algorithm popular too. Currently, a lot of file and folders are...
Old days of Unix to make backups into tape archives tar utility was used. The days past and Linux become popular in UNIX world. But the popularity of tar is never ended. tar is used...
