Tar for newbie tooltip
Compressing a folder, with all subfolders keeping the folder's tree:
tar -cvzpf /yourfile/path/archive.tgz /path/of/the/main/folder/to/compress
Uncompressing the previous created file, NOT overwriting the original folders ( /path/of/the/main/folder/to/compress) but extracting in a folder of your choice:
tar -xvzf /path/to/the/archive/file.tgz -C /path/of/your/choice/
