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Subject: tar or gzip or both?
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I would like to make periodic backups of my /home directories and a 
couple other really important ones on to a second hard drive. 
I would like these in nice neat packages, kind of like you could
do with pkzip.

How can I use tar and gzip to get a whole tree?

Thanks for the information...    

-Mike

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