Chapter 20. Given a scenario, backup, restore, and compress files

This chapter provides information and commands concerning the following topics:

Archive and restore utilities

Compression

Backup types

Off-site/off-system storage

Integrity checks

Archive and Restore Utilities

When disaster strikes, such as a hard disk failure or a natural disaster, data may become corrupted. Using archive and restore utilities helps limit the risks involved with data loss and makes it easier to transfer information from one system to another. This section focuses on these utilities.

tar

The purpose of the tar command is to merge multiple files ...

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