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Fedora Linux System Administration

You're reading from   Fedora Linux System Administration Install, manage, and secure your Fedora Linux environments

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804618400
Length 560 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1:The Fedora Project
2. Chapter 1: Linux and Open Source Projects FREE CHAPTER 3. Part 2:Workstation Configuration
4. Chapter 2: Best Practices for Installation 5. Chapter 3: Tuning the Desktop Environment 6. Chapter 4: Optimizing Storage Usage 7. Chapter 5: Network and Connectivity 8. Part 3:Productivity Tools
9. Chapter 6: Sandbox Applications 10. Chapter 7: Text Editors 11. Chapter 8: LibreOffice Suite 12. Chapter 9: Mail Clients and Browsers 13. Part 4:System Administration Tools
14. Chapter 10: System Administration 15. Chapter 11: Performance Tuning Best Practices 16. Chapter 12: Untangling Security with SELinux 17. Chapter 13: Virtualization and Containers 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Don’t forget to back up

Back up: A SysAdmin must back up the entire system, and always verify the backup.

Backing up is the most basic task.

Good practice begins with good habits. One of the habits that I have made over the years is to back up a file before editing it, either in the file path or by creating a backup directory:

Figure 10.40 – Backing up before modifying

Figure 10.40 – Backing up before modifying

On the surface, it doesn’t seem like a big task. However, if you incorporate this step into your tasks, then you have a simple backup of the files that you work with.

Besides copying files to change, another good habit is to create a package that contains archives or compressed files.

Let’s see how this works.

Archiving and compression

First of all, note the difference between an archive file and a compressed file:

  • An archive file consists of files and directories stored in a single file. The archive file remains uncompressed –...
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