choco install tar # or choco install gnuwin32-tar Prepared by Systems Engineering For internal distribution and technical reference.
<Exec> <Command>tar</Command> <Arguments>-czf D:\backups\weekly-%date%.tgz C:\inetpub\wwwroot</Arguments> </Exec> Note: Use %date:/=-% to avoid slashes in filename. # From WSL Bash, call Windows tar tar.exe -czf /mnt/c/backup.tar.gz /mnt/c/Users/MyUser Windows tar can read Linux symlinks (preserved if run as admin) 6. Performance Benchmarks Test environment: Windows 11 Pro, 32 GB RAM, NVMe SSD, 10,000 mixed files (2.3 GB total). tar for windows
:: Compress with maximum gzip (slowest, smallest) tar -czvf --options gzip:compression-level=9 backup.tar.gz largefolder/ :: Exclude .tmp and .log files tar -czf backup.tar.gz --exclude="*.tmp" --exclude="*.log" data/ :: Include only .txt files tar -czf texts.tar.gz --include="*.txt" data/ 4.4 Handling Long Paths (>260 chars) Windows tar supports long paths natively if enabled in system policy. To force: choco install tar # or choco install gnuwin32-tar