Rsync backup to tar or gzip archive

[Julian Underwood]

Hello List,

I am wanting to backup my Linux machine at work using Rsync.  I have a
mounted SMB share which it will be backing up to.  I would like to rsync
"into" an archive, so the backup is all in one file.  I've done some
googling and haven't found a real clear way to do an rsync backup into
either a tar or gzip archive.

Does anyone have a couple of one-liners or links they could recommend?

Thanks.

Julian