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Working with tar and zip archives

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Working with tar and zip archives

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- [Instructor] In the early days of computer systems, and still to a very large extent today, data that needed to be archived for safekeeping was recorded to backup tapes and stored in a closet or basement, or, ideally, in a more secure and suitable location. In order to store files on a linear medium like tape, files are recorded to the tape one after another in sequence, like songs on an audio cassette. Instead of using a tape, we can also create a file that contains other files in the sequence. TAR files, short for tape archive files, are still incredibly common for distributing, sharing, and archiving files on Linux systems. This is because it's much easier in many ways to send and store one large file instead of many small files. TAR files often don't involve any compression, but there are ways to incorporate compression into a TAR file, which we'll see as we explore different software distribution styles.…

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