To create a tarred and bzipped compressed file, use the -j option:
tar -cjvf filename.tbz
tar files compressed with bzip2 are conventionally given the extension .tbz.
This command creates an archive file and then compresses it as the file filename.tbz. If you uncompress the filename.tbz file with the bunzip2 command, the filename.tbz file is removed and replaced with filename.tar.
You can also expand and unarchive a bzip tar file in one command: