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Backups with tar
What is a VPC: your own private network inside one AWS Region, example ThreeTierVpc 10.0.0.0/16.
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Why do we need it?
Create gzip archive.
tar czf etc.tgz /etc
What is it?
List it.
tar tzf etc.tgz | head
How to do it
Extract to a folder.
tar xzf etc.tgz -C /restore
Example
Use xz.
tar cJf logs.tar.xz logs/