it took an hour -- as -- 1st -- archive manage has to read the entire .tar just to get the files directory, and 2d-- archive manager has to read the whole archive again -- in order to get the 1 little file i wanted
there has to be a better way
zip might work but it's such a PITA to figure out what their option switches mean
it appears something like this will be right
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zip --recurse-paths ~/Backups/test_zip *
this might not be too bad as a backup script could be positioned at the top of each major directory
there must be a better tool around,-- someplace!