Summary

In this chapter, you gained the final set of administrative tools and skills needed for you to become a safe and happy longtime Linux user. Specifically, you learned the following:

  • How to back up and restore your important data files using removable disk media and simple copying

  • How to back up and restore your important data files to magnetic tape or to special backup files using the tar command

  • How to try to rescue a system that has experienced a catastrophic failure of some sort and no longer boots correctly

  • How to salvage files from a broken system if you are unable to rescue it

  • How to recognize other situations in which data salvage and subsequent reinstallation and restoration might be apropos, including situations caused by file system ...

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