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Chapter 9. Fundamental Backup Techniques
- Table of Contents
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Moving your data to a backup device
- 9.3. Using rsync
- 9.3.1. Introduction
- 9.3.2. An example: rsync to a USB storage device
- 9.4. Encryption
- 9.4.1. General remarks
- 9.4.2. Generate a key
- 9.4.3. About your key
- 9.4.4. Encrypt data
- 9.4.5. Decrypting files
- 9.5. Summary
- 9.6. Exercises
Accidents will happen sooner or later. In this chapter, we'll discuss how to get data to a safe place using other hosts, floppy disks, CD-ROMs and tapes. We will also discuss the most popular compressing and archiving commands.
Upon completion of this chapter, you will know how to:
Make, query and unpack file archives
Handle floppy disks and make a boot disk for your system
Write CD-ROMs
Make incremental backups
Create Java archives
Find documentation to use other backup devices and programs
Encrypt your data