Chapter 12: Backing Up and Restoring

Outline:

Chapter Overview
12.1 Backup Strategies
12.1.1 Importance of backups
12.1.2 Backup methods
12.1.3 Data restoration issues
12.2 Backup Media 
12.2.1 Magnetic tape
12.2.2 Magnetic and optical disks
12.3 Backing Up, Compressing, and Restoring Files
12.3.1 Backing up files with tar
12.3.2 Compressing files
12.3.3 Uncompressing files
12.3.4 Backing up and compressing the home directory
12.3.5 Restoring files
12.4 Combining Backup and Compression
12.4.1 The jar command
12.5 GUI Backup Tools
12.5.1 Third party backup tools
12.5.2 Using CDE to archive, compress, and restore
Chapter Summary

Chapter Quiz