Compress an Entire Directory or a Single File

>> tar -czvf name-of-archive.tar.gz /path/to/directory-or-file

Example

>> tar -czvf filestore-date.tar.gz  /odoo/.local/share/Odoo/filestore/folder.locaiton

Extract .tar.gz file to current working directory and print output

>> tar -xvf filename.tar.gz

Extract .tar.gz file to a different working directory:

>> tar -xf filename.tar.gz -C /home/user/files