How to run backup and restore drills

Build Safecopy, backup jobs you can actually restore with rsync, tar, restore tests.

  • Difficulty Intermediate
  • Parts 10
  • Stack rsync, tar, restore tests

What you are learning

Safecopy is backup jobs you can actually restore. The teaching focus is Backups (rsync, tar, restore tests).

Work in order. Early parts set vocabulary and environment; later parts assume the earlier checkpoints.

How to use these lessons

Read the goal, open the matching GitHub folder, complete the lab or exercises, then return for the explanation. If a command fails, check you are in the numbered folder first.

Open the Safecopy GitHub repo →

Parts in order

Each chapter below is one checkpoint in this lab.