How often do you use Tar command? and for what purpose?

I've been doing a research regarding the tar command and I've wondered if people actually use the tar command for archival purposes or for just back up.

or is there a better method?

 

What kind of research? Can we see the results so far?

Better for what?
I use tar for example like this:

Code:

cd /somedir
tar cf - . | ( cd /otherdir ; tar xpBf - ) 

https://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/115/copy-files-and-directories-recursively-with-tar/