Translations:Archiving and compressing files/12/en

• The best-known tool for archiving files in the Linux community is tar. Here is a tutorial on 'tar'.
• A replacement for tar called dar offers some advantages in functionality. Here is a tutorial on 'dar'. Both tar and dar can compress files as well as archive.
• The zip utility, more commonly used in the Windows community but available on our clusters, also provides both archiving and compression.
• Compression tools gzip, bzip2 and xz can be used in conjunction with tar, or by themselves.