<Exec> <Command>tar</Command> <Arguments>-czf D:\backups\weekly-%date%.tgz C:\inetpub\wwwroot</Arguments> </Exec> Note: Use %date:/=-% to avoid slashes in filename. # From WSL Bash, call Windows tar tar.exe -czf /mnt/c/backup.tar.gz /mnt/c/Users/MyUser Windows tar can read Linux symlinks (preserved if run as admin) 6. Performance Benchmarks Test environment: Windows 11 Pro, 32 GB RAM, NVMe SSD, 10,000 mixed files (2.3 GB total).
choco install tar # or choco install gnuwin32-tar Prepared by Systems Engineering For internal distribution and technical reference.
:: Compress with maximum gzip (slowest, smallest) tar -czvf --options gzip:compression-level=9 backup.tar.gz largefolder/ :: Exclude .tmp and .log files tar -czf backup.tar.gz --exclude="*.tmp" --exclude="*.log" data/ :: Include only .txt files tar -czf texts.tar.gz --include="*.txt" data/ 4.4 Handling Long Paths (>260 chars) Windows tar supports long paths natively if enabled in system policy. To force:
tar --version Expected output: tar (GNU tar) 1.32 or higher.
| Extension | Compression | Flag | Example | |-----------|-------------|------|---------| | .tar | None | -cf | tar -cf archive.tar files/ | | .tar.gz / .tgz | Gzip | -czf | tar -czf backup.tgz docs/ | | .tar.bz2 | Bzip2 | -cjf | tar -cjf archive.tar.bz2 data/ | | .tar.xz | LZMA2 / XZ | -cJf | tar -cJf logs.tar.xz *.log | | .tar.zst | Zstandard | --zstd | tar -cf archive.tar.zst --zstd folder/ | Zstd support requires Windows 11 22H2 or later. 4. Basic and Advanced Command Syntax 4.1 Core Operations | Operation | Command | |-----------|---------| | Create archive | tar -cf archive.tar folder1 file2.txt | | Extract archive | tar -xf archive.tar | | List contents | tar -tf archive.tar | | Extract to specific dir | tar -xf archive.tar -C C:\target | | Add files to existing tar | tar -rf archive.tar newfile.txt | | Verbose output | tar -xvf archive.tar | 4.2 Compression Examples :: Create .tar.gz tar -czvf backup.tar.gz C:\Users\Public\Documents :: Extract .tar.xz tar -xJvf archive.tar.xz
<Exec> <Command>tar</Command> <Arguments>-czf D:\backups\weekly-%date%.tgz C:\inetpub\wwwroot</Arguments> </Exec> Note: Use %date:/=-% to avoid slashes in filename. # From WSL Bash, call Windows tar tar.exe -czf /mnt/c/backup.tar.gz /mnt/c/Users/MyUser Windows tar can read Linux symlinks (preserved if run as admin) 6. Performance Benchmarks Test environment: Windows 11 Pro, 32 GB RAM, NVMe SSD, 10,000 mixed files (2.3 GB total).
choco install tar # or choco install gnuwin32-tar Prepared by Systems Engineering For internal distribution and technical reference. tar for windows
:: Compress with maximum gzip (slowest, smallest) tar -czvf --options gzip:compression-level=9 backup.tar.gz largefolder/ :: Exclude .tmp and .log files tar -czf backup.tar.gz --exclude="*.tmp" --exclude="*.log" data/ :: Include only .txt files tar -czf texts.tar.gz --include="*.txt" data/ 4.4 Handling Long Paths (>260 chars) Windows tar supports long paths natively if enabled in system policy. To force: choco install tar # or choco install gnuwin32-tar
tar --version Expected output: tar (GNU tar) 1.32 or higher. | Extension | Compression | Flag | Example
| Extension | Compression | Flag | Example | |-----------|-------------|------|---------| | .tar | None | -cf | tar -cf archive.tar files/ | | .tar.gz / .tgz | Gzip | -czf | tar -czf backup.tgz docs/ | | .tar.bz2 | Bzip2 | -cjf | tar -cjf archive.tar.bz2 data/ | | .tar.xz | LZMA2 / XZ | -cJf | tar -cJf logs.tar.xz *.log | | .tar.zst | Zstandard | --zstd | tar -cf archive.tar.zst --zstd folder/ | Zstd support requires Windows 11 22H2 or later. 4. Basic and Advanced Command Syntax 4.1 Core Operations | Operation | Command | |-----------|---------| | Create archive | tar -cf archive.tar folder1 file2.txt | | Extract archive | tar -xf archive.tar | | List contents | tar -tf archive.tar | | Extract to specific dir | tar -xf archive.tar -C C:\target | | Add files to existing tar | tar -rf archive.tar newfile.txt | | Verbose output | tar -xvf archive.tar | 4.2 Compression Examples :: Create .tar.gz tar -czvf backup.tar.gz C:\Users\Public\Documents :: Extract .tar.xz tar -xJvf archive.tar.xz
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