Archive and Compress files
Create (-c)
tar -cf public.tar /path
Compress (-z, -j)
tar -czf public.tgz /path tar -cjf public.bz2 /path
Extract (-x)
tar -xvjf file.tar.bz2 tar -xvzf file.tgz
Options
x Extract c Create z Compress (gzip) j Compress (bzip2) v Verbose
To get LZMA compression you can use –lzma.