Hi Guys,
If we need make a backup of a directory, the best options is use tar.
For example, you have a directory called /home/emanuelq/files and you would like to compress this directory,you can type tar command as follows:

The above command will create an archive called backup.tar.gz in the current directory.
If you want to extract the content of the file you need to run this command.

The above command will be extract the files in the current directory.