A directory called /employee is shared with many employees in a company. New hardware was acquired, and the systems administrator needs to back up all files in /employee before the server is replaced. Which of the following commands should be used to back up all the files and compress them to use little space in the filesystem?

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A. tar -zcvf backup.tar.gz /employee The `tar -zcvf backup.tar.gz /employee` command uses `-z` for gZip compression, `-c` to create a new archive, `-v` for verbose output (showing files being added), and `-f` to specify the archive file name (`backup.tar.gz`) followed by the source directory (`/employee`). This effectively backs up and compresses the specified directory.

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B. tar -zxvf backup.tar.gz /employee The `-x` option is used to extract files from an archive, not to create one.

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D. tar -Tpf backup.tar.gz /employee The `-T` option is used to read file names to be archived from a file, and `-p` preserves permissions, but it lacks the `-c` (create) and `-z` (compress) options needed for the stated goal.

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