Lecture #12 Backup and Restore

Learner Outcomes

Activities

  1. Exercises 9.3, 9.4, and 9.5 from the back of the chapter.
  2. Demonstration of backing up a file system remotely.
  3. Perform a full system backup of the virtual Linux Install machine
  4. Lab 8

Assignment

  1. Read Chapter 8 and sections 1, 2, and 4 of Chapter 10
  2. Do Lab 9

System Backup and Restore

  1. The Backup Process
  2. Backup Devices
  3. Types of Data
  4. Methodologies
  5. Archive Utilities
  6. Compression Utilities
  7. Backup Software Packages

Relevant Commands and Files

Commands Files
tar        - simple backup and restore utility  
cpio       - flexible backup and restore utility  
dump       - backup utility /etc/dumpdates
restore    - restores from a dump archive