In Linux. using SSH, you can zip an entire directory and it’s contents quickly using the following command:
zip -r myfiles.zip mydir
Example – You’d like to zip up a directory located at:
/var/www/html/sitename
Login via ssh and navigate one level up:
cd /var/www/html
From here just run the zip command:
zip -r sitename.zip sitename
There are several reasons this can come in handy:
- You don’t have GUI access to the server and downloading individual files could be very time consuming via FTP client
- You need to take a quick backup
- You do have GUI access to the server, but the utility for zipping up the files there may not be efficient depending on your tool
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