Western Kentucky University COURSE TITLE CIT 412 7

Western Kentucky University

COURSE TITLE CIT 412

7.8.9Section 7.8 Quiz

1)You want to archive some configuration files to the floppy drive. You are using the cpio utility. Which line will create the archive on the floppy?

2. You want to restore files with the extension .cfg from an archive called configs.cpio. Which command will perform the restore?
3. You have a tape archive mounted in /dev/rmt12. You need to get a list of the file contents. Which command will list the contents?
4. You have a SCSI tape drive st0. You want to backup the contents of /var/oracle. Which command will perform the backup?
5. You need to backup Jane’s files in her /home/user/jane directory. Which command will create an archive in the /root directory?
6. You need to restore a file, yearend.xls from the archive 013004.tar.gz in the backup directory. The file needs to be restored to /home/accounting. Which command will perform the restore?
7. Which utility allows you to make an exact copy of a file?
8. You are compressing a file with the tar utility but you need to ensure you can uncompress the file with the bzip2 utility. Which tar option should you use during the file compression?

9. You need to view the files within /home/gshant/expfile.bz2 but you want to leave the compressed file unchanged. What bzip2 option should you use?