---
title: "Simple backup & compress folder"
date: "2009-05-18"
modified: "2013-03-04"
path: "/38-simple-backup-compress-folder.html"
section: "/ramblings"
aliases:
  - "/38"
  - "/38-simple-backup-compress-folder"
  - "/38.html"
  - "/ramblings/38-simple-backup-compress-folder.html"
---

Use the following:

```
tar -cvf - dir_to_backup | gzip -9 > new_file.tar.gz
```