Explain Backup Managment commands in Linux.

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Explain Backup Managment commands in Linux...

Answer / rahul gupta

Backup Management can be done with following commands
1. tar
2. dd
3. mt
4. cpio

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Explain Backup Managment commands in Linux...

Answer / susheel narayan singh

to take a backup of a file if file name is susheel --
# tar -cvf file susheel


c for create
v for verbose
f for file

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Explain Backup Managment commands in Linux...

Answer / arnab

tar -jcvf log.tar.gz log
where j = .gz extention
c = create
v = varbose
f = file
or
tar -zcvf log.tar.bz2 log
where z = .bz2 extention
c = create
v = varbose
f = file

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Explain Backup Managment commands in Linux...

Answer / kashinath

#tar -icvf file name
then fire another command
#tar file (source)name.tar (destination path)

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Explain Backup Managment commands in Linux...

Answer / rajshree

To take the backup of complete file by using tar command.
tar -cvf <destination directory> <source directory>

To take the backup of selected file by using the CPIO command
ls -d <source file> | cpio -ov > <destination file>.cpio

To take the back up remotely by using the scr command
scr -rv <source directory> <dest.sys ip>:<destination derectory>

To take full,incrimental,differential backup by using the DUMP command.
For full backup command is
dump 0uf <dest file> <source file>
For incremental backup command is
dump -2uf <dest file> <source file>...This is for 1st incrimental.
For 2nd incrimental command is
dump -3uf <dest file> <source file>
The value need to be increase depends on no of incrementals.

For the differential backup command is
dump -1uf <dest dir> <source dir>

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