creating a tar file with filezilla code example
Example 1: create tar gz file from directory
tar -czf tarball.tar.gz my_directory/
Example 2: how to tar a file
tar -czvf name-of-archive.tar.gz /path/to/directory-or-file
Example 3: how to create tar file to another directory
tar czf /var/www/file.tar.gz file1