Hour 19. Archives and Backups

Goals for This Hour

In this hour, you will learn

Image About the tar tape archive utility

Image About using zip to create PC-compatible ZIP archives

Image How to use compress to shrink down large files, along with gzip and bzip2

Image About cpio and tcio

About a common personal backup scheme

How to work with package management systems

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