How to recursively tar ?

[Kailash . Subramanian]

All,
     What is the best way to create a tar archive using Archive module for a
large directory structure with some 5000 files ? Currently I am using UNIX tar
for this.
Do I read all the files and directory and then use Archive module to tar them?
If anybody can give me an idea for the syntax, I would appreicate.


Thx
Kailash

Note : I am a beginner.