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Third-party backup of a Linux server with Backup Exec

Third-party backup of a Linux server with Backup Exec

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Third-party backup of a Linux server with Backup Exec

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- [Instructor] I'd like to back up my Linux computer, but I'd like to do it using one of the third party applications, and in this case, Veritas Backup Exec. So I've mounted the Backup Exec ISO file, and I went into the DVD, and you can see a folder called 'UNIX'. And inside there is this file called 'RALUS', filed with a 'tar' and 'gz' extension. So what that means is this is a compressed ZIP type of file. So I've copied that over into my documents folder, and I'm going to rename it just to make it a little bit easier to type the commands I need to type, because that is a really complicated name. So I've renamed it and now I'm actually in that particular folder. And I'm just going to confirm by typing 'ls' that the file is there and there it is. Now I need to type a command that's going to be a 'tar' command, and it's going to be 'tar' followed by the extensions of 'zvxf' and then the name of the file after renaming…

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