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Unix/Linux System Administration

Module: 
Backups
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This module covers the issues relating to backups and the standard Unix archive mechanisms of tar and cpio. It also covers a simplified use of rsync to synchronize data with a remote tree.

Contents

  1. Introduction to Backups
  2. Backup issues
  3. Types of backups
  4. A comparison of tar and cpio
  5. tar
  6. cpio
  7. rsync
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