MonkeyClicker

I'm sorry if this is a stupid question but I'm a total noob...

I'd like to create a tar.gz archive of a directory, and I'd like to keep the permissions of the files and directories in the tar.gz. How do I do it?

To tar a directory type the following code into terminal

tar -pczf name_of_your_archive.tar.gz /path/to/directory

to untar type

tar -xzf name_of_your_archive.tar.gz

Saludos