May 2017
Beginner
552 pages
28h 47m
English
Content preview from Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition
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The Backup Plan
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Archiving with tar
- Archiving with cpio
- Compressing data with gzip
- Archiving and compressing with zip
- Faster archiving with pbzip2
- Creating filesystems with compression
- Backing up snapshots with rsync
- Differential archives
- Creating entire disk images using fsarchiver