8. Archiving & File Retrieval

📄️Comparison

Compare common Linux archiving and compression tools for WordPress backups, including speed, ratio, and split/join support.

Learn the difference between archiving and compression, and choose formats that fit WordPress backup and migration workflows.

Create, inspect, and extract archives with tar for WordPress backups, migrations, and restore drills.

Create encrypted and/or multi-part archives with 7z for WordPress backups, transfers, and cold storage.

Create, inspect, and extract .tar.xz archives using tar and xz for high-compression backups and cold storage.

Create and extract ZIP archives with zip and unzip for WordPress transfers, client handoffs, and cross-platform packaging.

Use zstd for fast compression of SQL dumps, logs, and tar archives (tar.zst) in WordPress backup workflows.

Compress and decompress single files with gzip (.gz), especially SQL dumps and logs in WordPress backup workflows.

Compress single files with xz and create tar.xz archives for high-compression WordPress backups and cold storage.