Question

LINUX:

Question 1)

There has been suspicious activity on the system.  In order to preserve log information, it will be necessary to archive the current files in /var/logending with the ".log" extension.  The files are to be saved to a file named log.tar, stored in the directory, ~/archive.  

It has also been requested that the files that were archived be saved to a directory, ~/backup.

Objectives

- Create an archive named log.tar that is stored in the archive directory located in the home directory.

- Remove path names from the files that are archived.

- Produce verbose output while archiving.

- List the contents of the archive without extracting.

- Extract the files to the directory, ~/backup.

*Provide the final commands for successful completion.

Answer 1

The commands for given tasks are as follows:

Create archive directory at home location

mkdir ~/archive;

Create an archive named log.tar that is stored in the archive directory located in the home directory.

Remove path names from the files that are archived.

cd /var/log && tar -cvf ~/archive/log.tar *.log;cd;

Note : the above command archives tar file in given location and removed full path from filenames as well

List the contents of the archive without extracting.

tar -tf ~/archive/log.tar;

Extract the files to the directory, ~/backup.

mkdir ~/backup;

tar -xvf ~/archive/log.tar -C ~/backup;

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