Linux Administration Question 1. User evanhalen left, and I need t.pdf
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The document addresses a Linux administration task of removing a user account and backing up the user's home directory. It provides a command using the 'tar' utility to create a compressed backup of the specified user's files. The command syntax for backing up the home directory is detailed in the document.
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Linux Administration Question 1. User evanhalen left, and I need t.pdf
- 1. Linux Administration Question: 1. User evanhalen left, and I need to remove his account from my server and remove his home directory, but I also want to create a backup of all files in evanhalen's home directory and save that to my ~/backups directory. What SINGLE command would do this? Solution I have used the tar utilities to create a backup of users home directory as follows: Tar utilities means - The Linux “tar” means for tape archive, which is used by large number of Linux administrators to deal with tape drives backup. The tar command used to bind a collection of files and directories into highly compressed archive file commonly called tar in Linux Single line Command is below : # tar jcvf /my-backups/evanhalen-home-directory-backup.tar.bz2 /home/evanhalen