Archiving With GNU tar

Back up directory with full path

tar -p -zcvf /world2018021802.tgz /usr/local/xtar/world

Restore with path relative from the current directory (tar extract)

tar xvzf world2018021802.tgz

tar -P xvzf

other

tar -sp -zcvf var-lib-mysql.tar.gz /var/lib/mysql -P

tarball:

tar -sp -zcvf mysqlhotcopy.tar.gz  /home/username/placetoputbackupfile -P

tar -sp -zcvf archive.tar.gz /mounted/directory -P

List contents of filename.tar to the screen

tar -tvf filename.tar

List the contents of a gnuzip (gzip) compressed tar archive.

tar -ztf name-of-file.tgz

Verbosely

tar -ztvf name-of-file.tgz

Search the archive

tar -ztf name-of-file.tgz | grep -i "search string"

Verbosely

tar -ztvf name-of-file.tgz | grep -i "search string"