Creating an archive using tar command

Creating an uncompressed tar archive using option cvf This is the basic command to create a tar archive.

$ tar cvf archive_name.tar dirname/

In the above command:
c – create a new archive
v – verbosely list files which are processed.
f – following is the archive file name

Creating a tar gzipped archive using option cvzf The above tar cvf option, does not provide any compression. To use a gzip compression on the tar archive, use the z option as shown below.

$ tar cvzf archive_name.tar.gz dirname/

z – filter the archive through gzip