Haha, yes of course. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarball
And tarballs are commonly compressed with gzip, a native GNU/Linux zipper. If you ever wanted to move a complete website with all permissions intact, you would tar and gzip it up, do a direct server-to-server-ftp move of the bundle, and open it up at the new server.
And tarballs are commonly compressed with gzip, a native GNU/Linux zipper. If you ever wanted to move a complete website with all permissions intact, you would tar and gzip it up, do a direct server-to-server-ftp move of the bundle, and open it up at the new server.