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Backup
What is Backup?

Backup and Recovery
Backup-Backup is a utility which will protect our system from accidental lost.

Storing or keeping our data or program files in separate safety location (may be in HDD or Tape
Drive or CD or DVD or Backup Medias) is called as Backup.

Restore – Taking our important data from backup file is called Restore. When accidentally our files
deleted, you can restore (get) the data from backup file

Commands for Backup in LINUX

1. tar (tape archive)
2. cpio (copy in and out)
3. dd (disk to disk)
4. dump

#tar <options> <destination> <source>
Options:- -c  Create
-t  Table of the backup content
-x  extract the backup
-v  verbose
-f  file
-z  zip

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