Red Hat System Administration II

Instructions

1. On serverb, synchronize the /etc directory tree from servera to the /configsync directory.

   1. Log in to serverb as the student user and switch to the root user.

      [student@workstation ~]$ ssh student@serverb
      ...output omitted...
      [student@serverb ~]$ sudo -i
      [sudo] password for student: student
      [root@serverb ~]#

   2. Create the /configsync directory to store the synchronized files from servera.

      [root@serverb ~]# mkdir /configsync

   3. Synchronize the /etc directory tree from servera to the /configsync directory on serverb.

      [root@serverb ~]# rsync -av root@servera:/etc /configsync
      receiving incremental file list
      etc/
      etc/.pwd.lock
      etc/.rht_authorized_keys
      ...output omitted...
      sent 11,519 bytes  received 20,203,285 bytes  40,429,608.00 bytes/sec
      total size is 20,150,298  speedup is 1.00

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2. Create a configfile-backup-servera.tar.gz archive with the /configsync directory contents.

   1. Create a gzip compressed archive.

      [root@serverb ~]# tar -czf configfile-backup-servera.tar.gz /configsync
      tar: Removing leading `/' from member names

   2. List the contents of the configfile-backup-servera.tar.gz archive.

      [root@serverb ~]# tar -tzf configfile-backup-servera.tar.gz
      ...output omitted...
      configsync/etc/vimrc
      configsync/etc/wgetrc
      configsync/etc/xattr.conf

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3. Securely copy the /root/configfile-backup-servera.tar.gz archive file from serverb to the /home/student directory on workstation.

   [root@serverb ~]# sftp student@workstation
   student@workstation's password: student
   Connected to workstation.
   sftp> put configfile-backup-servera.tar.gz
   Uploading configfile-backup-servera.tar.gz to /home/student/configfile-backup-servera.tar.gz
   configfile-backup-servera.tar.gz                 100% 4933KB 359.5MB/s   00:00
   sftp> bye

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4. On workstation, extract the contents to the /tmp/savedconfig/ directory.

   1. Return to the workstation system as the student user.

      [root@serverb ~]# exit
      logout
      [student@serverb ~]$ exit
      logout
      Connection to serverb closed.
      [student@workstation]$

   2. Create the /tmp/savedconfig directory, to store the extracted contents. Change to the new directory.

      [student@workstation ~]$ mkdir /tmp/savedconfig
      [student@workstation ~]$ cd /tmp/savedconfig
      [student@workstation savedconfig]$

   3. List the contents of the configfile-backup-servera.tar.gz archive.

      [student@workstation savedconfig]$ tar -tzf ~/configfile-backup-servera.tar.gz
      ...output omitted...
      configsync/etc/vimrc
      configsync/etc/wgetrc
      configsync/etc/xattr.conf

   4. Extract the archive contents to the /tmp/savedconfig/ directory.

      [student@workstation savedconfig]$ tar -xzf ~/configfile-backup-servera.tar.gz

   5. List the directory to verify that it contains etc files.

      [student@workstation savedconfig]$ ls -lR
      .:
      total 0
      drwxr-xr-x. 3 student student 17 Mar 28 16:32 configsync
      
      ./configsync:
      total 12
      drwxr-xr-x. 105 student student 8192 Mar 28 16:03 etc
      ...output omitted...

   6. Return to the student user's home directory.

      [student@workstation savedconfig]$ cd
      [student@workstation ~]$

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