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Hands-On Linux System Administration [Video]

By : Jack-Benny Persson
Book Image

Hands-On Linux System Administration [Video]

By: Jack-Benny Persson

Overview of this book

Have you only come into brief contact with Linux before, but now you need to set up or maintain a Linux server? Then this course is for you. With this course you'll learn how to master any Linux machine. Control and master the administration of a Linux machine, whether a workstation or a server. You'll learn how to set up services, monitor the system, perform backups, and schedule common tasks. By the end of the course you will be ready to start your career as a Linux system administrator. The code bundle for this video course is available at: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-on-Linux-System-Administration
Table of Contents (6 chapters)
Chapter 6
System Maintenance
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Section 4
Creating Backups
Creating and maintaining up-to date backups is an important task to a sysadmin. In this video we learn how to do just that! - Learn about a very powerful backup tool, namely rsync. - Make a complete backup of the entire home directory and place it on our thumb drive. - Change a file, and re-run the rsync command and see how it only copies the changed file.