Category: Linux administration
Backup tools and solutions. File archives, backing up whole partitions (including Windows ones) and disks, networked backup systems (Bacula). Planning a backup strategy. Backing up users’ workstations.
Duration
1 day
Agenda
- Backups and data protection
- Backup types
- disk array
- unstructured repository
- full copy, incremental / differential copy
- Creating simple file archives (zip, gzip, bzip2)
- rdiff-backup
- Networked backup systems, Bacula
- planning, assessing requirements
- configuration, deployment
- backup monitoring
- SSL configuration in Bacula
- web tools for backup monitoring and management
- backups in a heterogeneous environment (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X)
- Physical media considerations
- Designing a backup system. Backup strategies. Minimal set of backed up data.
- Backing up users’ workstations
Audience and prerequisites
This course targets intermediate-level Linux system administrators.
Participants must have good knowledge of general system administration and Bash syntax.
Certificates
Course participants receive completion certificates signed by ALX.
