=== Create .tar archive from a directory ===

<code bash>
tar -c /srv/ddrive/ -f ddrive.tar
</code>

=== Create .tar.bz2 archive from a directory ===

<code bash>
tar -cjf sogo.marek_dump.sql.tar.bz2 sogo.marek_dump.sql
</code>

=== With date ===

<code bash>
tar -cjf mongodump_$(date +%F).tar.bz2 dump/
</code>

=== To a specific directory ===

<code bash>
tar xjf sogo.marek_dump.sql.tar.bz2 -C ~/dumps/
</code>