Isn't this basically just "tar cvzf output.tar.gz /source/path" ? I'm sure there's more to it, but reading the description tar seems to check most of (if not a

Isn't this basically just "tar cvzf output.tar.gz /source/path" ? I'm sure there's more to it, but reading the description tar seems to check most of (if not all) the boxes. - File attributes (ownership, permissions, dates, etc) - Extended attributes - Multiple filesystems (tar is somewhat filesystem agnostic) - Splitting into multiple volumes (tar -M for multi volume) - Checksumming (tar does checksums on metadata, but not data) - Restoring corrupt archives (tar skips unreadable parts of the data stream)