Chapter 14: Archives and file transfer

tar and rsync quiz

Ten questions across the whole chapter. Each answer explains why. Aim for eight before moving on to chapter 15.

• Which command creates an xz-compressed archive?
• Which option extracts into a chosen directory?
• What does tar -tvf do?
• Which option keeps ACLs in an archive?
• How do you check that an archive extracted correctly?
• Which command verifies a list of SHA-256 checksums?
• What is an incremental backup?
• Which method streams a directory to another host without temporary files?
• Which compression is fastest?
• A backup you never test-restored is ...