Category: Linux administration
Backup tools and solutions. File archives, backing up whole partitions (including Windows ones) and disks, networked backup systems (Bacula). Planning a backup strategy. Backing up users’ workstations.
Duration
1 day
Agenda
- Backups and data protection
- Backup types
- disk array
- unstructured repository
- full copy, incremental / differential copy
- Creating simple file archives (zip, gzip, bzip2)
- rdiff-backup
- Networked backup systems, Bacula
- planning, assessing requirements
- configuration, deployment
- backup monitoring
- SSL configuration in Bacula
- web tools for backup monitoring and management
- backups in a heterogeneous environment (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X)
- Physical media considerations
- Designing a backup system. Backup strategies. Minimal set of backed up data.
- Backing up users’ workstations
Audience and prerequisites
This course targets intermediate-level Linux system administrators.
Participants must have good knowledge of general system administration and Bash syntax.
Certificates
Course participants receive completion certificates signed by ALX.
See also:
- Linux administrator
- Advanced Linux administrator
- LPI 101. An introduction to Linux administration
- LPI 102. Linux administration and networking
- Building a modern CI / CD process using the Jenkins server
- Selected Linux network services
- LPI 201. Linux architecture and low-level configuration
- LPI 202. Selected network services and network security
- LPIC-2 exam prep course
- LPI 300: LDAP, Samba, Integration with MS Windows and Mixed Environments
- LPI 303: Cryptography, Access Control, Services and Network Security
- LPI 304: Linux Virtualization and High Availability
- E-mail server - Exim, anti-spam solutions
- E-mail server - Postfix
- Bash shell programming
- Advanced shell programming, Bash, AWK
- Advanced network traffic and content filtering
- VPNs in theory and practice
- Bandwidth and Traffic Management (QoS) on Linux
- Server and network monitoring, SNMP, Nagios, Munin
- Apache HTTP server on Linux
- Bind domain name server on Linux
- LDAP directory services on Linux. Integrating authorization systems
- Samba server on Linux
- Advanced Samba configuration (PDC, LDAP, replication)
- Linux virtualization
- Wireless networks and their security
- Digital signature and encryption with OpenSSL and GnuPG
- High availability: Linux Virtual Server and supporting technologies (HA1)
- NFS: Network File System on Linux
- Safe Internet in a computer lab
- Security components in Linux
- Linux - application and kernel debugging
- Linux - exploiting applications and operating system. Low level attacks.
- Linux - application security testing, searching for possible exploits. High-level attacks
- MySQL administration
