Workshop

The Workshop is designed to help you anticipate possible questions, review what you've learned, and begin learning how to put your knowledge into practice.

Quiz

1:	What command would you use to back up the /var/www, /var/logs, and /home directory trees to the only IDE tape drive on a Linux computer system?
2:	How do you start the Fedora Core 4 rescue tool?
3:	What command is used to perform file system checks of the Linux ext2 and ext3 file systems?
4:	Finding garbage in your files is a symptom of what type of critical problem?

Answers

A1:	tar -c -f /dev/ht0 /var/www /var/logs /home
A2:	Boot from your install media (floppy or CD-ROM) and enter the text linux rescue at the boot: prompt.
A3:	e2fsck
A4:	File system corruption

Activities

1. Design and implement a backup regimen for your dataeither an automatic one using shell scripts and cron or simply a manual one that you decide to abide by faithfully.

2. Try booting into the rescue tool just to test it and become familiar with the process.

3. Use the tar command to store a few files of your choosing in a backup file and then restore them to another directory.