Working with tar and tar Encryption

STEP 1 :  (Using the tar command on the directory /example)

Suppose you have a directory /stuff. To tar everything in stuff to create a “.tar” file.

# tar -cvf example.tar example

It will create example.tar file.

STEP 2 :  (Using the tar command to create a “.tar.gz” of /example)

# tar -czf example.tar.gz example

STEP 3 :  (List the files in the archive)

# tar -tzf example.tar.gz
or
# tar -tf example.tar

STEP 4 :   (ENCRYPTION)

# tar -zcvf – example | openssl des3 -salt -k secretpassword | dd of=example.des3

This will create example.des3…Please don’t forget the password you put in place of secretpassword.

If you want to do this interactively then

# dd if=example.des3 |openssl des3 -d -k secretpassword|tar zxf -