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tar - Utility used to store, backup, and transport files

Overview
Dependencies
The GNU tar program saves many files together in one archive and can restore individual files (or all of the files) from that archive. Tar can also be used to add supplemental files to an archive and to update or list files in the archive. Tar includes multivolume support, automatic archive compression/decompression, the ability to perform remote archives, and the ability to perform incremental and full backups.

If you want to use tar for remote backups, you also need to install the rmt package on the remote box.
Original maintainer
Homepagehttp://www.gnu.org/software/tar/
1.32
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1.27.1
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Arch iconArch rolling core/osxz1.32-32019-11-18742 kiB2.83 MiB
CentOS iconCentOS 7.7.1908 osrpm2:1.26-35.el72020-01-07846 kiB2.71 MiBCentOS BuildSystem
Debian iconDebian 10.0 buster/maindeb1.30+dfsg-62019-06-17762 kiB2.82 MiB
Debian iconDebian 9.0 stretch/maindeb1.29b-1.12017-11-10742 kiB2.71 MiB
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Manual pages

tar(1)

tar - an archiving utility

tarcat(1)

tarcat - concatenates the pieces of a GNU tar multi-volume archive

rmt(8)

rmt - remote magnetic tape server

rmt-tar(8)

rmt - remote magnetic tape server

Latest updates

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Ubuntu 20.04 focal-proposed/main: Version 1.30+dfsg-7 removed

Mar 25
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Ubuntu 20.04 focal/main: Updated from 1.30+dfsg-6 to 1.30+dfsg-7

Mar 25
  • remove libattr1-dev build-dep, as we no longer use it, closes: #953902
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Ubuntu 20.04 focal-proposed/main: Version 1.30+dfsg-7 introduced

Mar 24
  • remove libattr1-dev build-dep, as we no longer use it, closes: #953902
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OpenSUSE Tumbleweed oss: Updated from 1.32-1.2 to 1.32-2.1

Feb 11
  • No longer recommend -lang: supplements are in use.
Fedora icon

Fedora rawhide development/Server-os: Updated from 2:1.32-2.fc31 to 2:1.32-4.fc32

Feb 08
  • Skip the test if genfile is unable to create
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Fedora rawhide development/Everything-os: Updated from 2:1.32-2.fc31 to 2:1.32-4.fc32

Feb 08
  • Skip the test if genfile is unable to create
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Fedora 31 releases/Server-os: Version 2:1.32-2.fc31 introduced

2020-01-07
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Fedora 31 releases/Everything-os: Version 2:1.32-2.fc31 introduced

2020-01-07
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OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 oss: Version 1.30-lp152.3.4 introduced

2020-01-07
  • add tar-1.30-CVE-2018-20482.patch to fix a security issue where tar when "--sparse" option is used, mishandles file shrinkage during read access, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (infinite read loop in sparse_dump_region in sparse.c) by modifying a file that is supposed to be archived by a different user's process [bsc#1120610] [CVE-2018-20482]
  • add tar-1.30-CVE-2019-9923.patch to fix a security issue where pax_decode_header in sparse.c in tar had a NULL pointer dereference when parsing certain archives that have malformed extended headers [bsc#1130496] [CVE-2019-9923]
CentOS icon

CentOS 7.7.1908 os: Version 2:1.26-35.el7 introduced

2020-01-07
  • fix --keep-directory-restore (rhbz#1513946)
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Ubuntu 20.04 focal/main: Version 1.30+dfsg-6 introduced

2020-01-07
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Arch rolling testing/os: Version 1.32-3 removed

2019-11-18
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Arch rolling core/os: Updated from 1.32-2 to 1.32-3

2019-11-18
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Arch rolling testing/os: Version 1.32-3 introduced

2019-11-14
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Arch rolling staging/os: Version 1.32-3 removed

2019-11-14
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Arch rolling staging/os: Version 1.32-3 introduced

2019-11-13
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Arch rolling testing/os: Version 1.32-2 removed

2019-10-08
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Arch rolling core/os: Updated from 1.32-1 to 1.32-2

2019-10-08
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Arch rolling testing/os: Version 1.32-2 introduced

2019-10-06
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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS xenial-updates/main: Version 1.28-2.1ubuntu0.1 reintroduced

2019-10-02
  • SECURITY UPDATE: extract pathname bypass
    • debian/patches/CVE-2016-6321.patch: skip members whose names contain ".." in src/extract.c.
    • CVE-2016-6321

Related packages

tar-backup-scripts - Backup scripts
tar-debuginfo - Debug information for package tar
tar-debugsource - Debug sources for package tar
tar-doc - documentation for the tar package
tar-lang - Translations for package tar
tar-rmt - Remote tape drive control server by GNU
tar-rmt-debuginfo - Debug information for package tar-rmt
tar-scripts - optional scripts for GNU version of the tar archiving utility
tar-split - tar archive assembly/disassembly
tar-tests - Tests for the package
tar-tests-debuginfo - Debug information for package tar-tests
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