tar cvzf problem

[veledrom]

Hi,

This is what I do in Ubuntu Terminal to compress a folder but doesn't actually compreass and create backup file.

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ tar cvzf backup.tgz /var/www/compression/1/
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
/var/www/compression/1/
/var/www/compression/1/text1.txt
/var/www/compression/1/text2.txt
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

Help please.

Thanks

[gerard4143]

Try this link, it provide some simple examples

http://www.metatitan.com/linux/5/how-to-tar-untar-from-the-command-line.html