How to backup entire site via TAR command?

[irock]

Hi, I forgot the command on how to use TAR command for site backup in root. Could anyone provide an example?

Thanks!

[coopster]

You want to make a tarball of your documentroot?

cd /usr/local/apache/htdocs/mydocumentroot 
tar cvzf /usr/local/apache/htdocs/mydocumentroot$(date '+%F_%H%I%S%P').tgz . 

I like to append a timestamp to the end of it ...

[irock]

Wow cop,

You certainly know your Unix stuff... :) Thanks.

[skinter]

If ever you are having trouble use man; I.E. 'man tar', or 'man command-name-here'.

The manual is your friend.