Services

Services - systemd

Services - rc.local

VirtualBox - Autostart and Autostop

Tar (when run from /home):

tar -czvf archive.tar.gz --preserve-permissions --exclude='user/subsubdir/*' directory_or_file

Untar:

tar -xvf archive.tar.gz

How To Use Systemctl to Manage Systemd Services and Units

How to run commands at shutdown on Linux

How to Prevent Accidental Shutdown or Reboot on Linux Using systemd Custom Service

systemd (systemd in Debian is at /lib/systemd) and systemctl