Dell PowerConnect J-EX4200-24T Software Manual page 435

Chapter 27: Operational Mode Commands for Configuration Management
file archive The following sample command archives and compresses all message files in the local
(with Compression) directory as the single file in the same directory:
/var/log/messages messages-archive.tgz
user@host> file archive compress source /var/log/messages* destination
/var/log/messages-archive.tgz
/usr/bin/tar: Removing leading / from absolute path names in the archive.
user@host>
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