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:
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Make, query and unpack file archives
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Handle floppy disks and make a boot disk for your system
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Write CD-ROMs
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Make incremental backups
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Create Java archives
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Find documentation to use other backup devices and programs
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Encrypt your data
