Detailed Objective (206.2)

(LPIC-2 Version 4.5)

Weight: 3

Description: Candidates should be able to use system tools to back up important system data.

Key Knowledge Areas:

• Knowlegde about directories that have to be include in backups.
• Awareness of network backup solutions such as Amanda, Bacula, Bareos and BackupPC.
• Knowledge of the benefits and drawbacks of tapes, CDR, disk or other backup media.
• Perform partial and manual backups.
• Verify the integrity of backup files.
• Partially or fully restore backups.

Terms and Utilities:

• /bin/sh
• dd
• tar
• /dev/st* and /dev/nst*
• mt
• rsync

further reading

• LPI Linux Certification/Maintain An Effective Data Backup Strategy
• Minimizing hard disk drive failure and data loss