Ubuntu Unleashed 2019 Edition: Covering 18.04, 18.10, 19.04

With an impressive array of options (see the man page), tar is quite flexible and powerful in combination wit ...

The tar command can also backup over multiple floppy disks: Click here to view code image matthew@seymour ...

The GNOME File Roller The GNOME desktop file archiving graphical application File Roller (file- roller) vie ...

the KDE desktop (as File Roller is with GNOME), so it might be a better choice if you use KDE. This appli ...

FIGURE 17.1 The Backups icon is easy to find. After you open the Backups application, go through the menu ...

FIGURE 17.2 Backup settings are accessed using the menu entries on the left. Back In Time Back In Time ...

to restore. Back In Time keeps multiple logs of actions and activities, file changes, and versions, and ...

Amanda is a powerful network backup application created by the University of Maryland at College Park. Amanda i ...

information about subscribing to the mail list and links to Amanda-related projects and a FAQ. Alternative B ...

Copying Files Using tar One choice for copying files into another location is to use the tar command; you j ...

Compressing, Encrypting, and Sending tar Streams The file copy techniques using the tar command in the previous s ...

Click here to view code image matthew@seymour:~$ sudo cp -avR directory_to_backup destination_vol_or_dir 1 & ...

An old favorite for backing up is rsync. One big reason for this is that rsync enables you to copy only fil ...

—delete—Deletes extraneous files from destination directories. —delete-excluded—Also deletes excluded files from ...

Version Control for Configuration Files For safety and ease of recovery when configuration files are corrupted ...

which saves you the task of remembering to commit changes to your version control system each time the pack ...

Recovering or reverting file changes is then done using your version control system directly. Suppose, ...

There will come a time when you need to engage in system rescue efforts. This need arises when ...

know your partitioning scheme and the location of your Ubuntu installation— the partition will probably ...

system administrators: those who lose data when this happens and those who have good schemes in place. ...