Backup automation script in Bash Scripting - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to create a backup directory if it does not exist.

Bash Scripting

if [ ! -d [1] ]; then
  mkdir -p /backup
fi

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A/tmp

B/home

C/backup

D/var

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using a wrong directory path.

Forgetting the exclamation mark to negate the condition.

The script checks if the /backup directory exists. If not, it creates it using mkdir -p.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the code to copy all files from /data to the backup directory.

Bash Scripting

cp -r /data/* [1]

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A/backup

B/tmp

C/var

D/home

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Copying to the wrong directory.

Forgetting the -r flag for directories.

The cp command copies all files and folders from /data to /backup recursively.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the code to archive the backup directory into a tar.gz file.

Bash Scripting

tar -czf [1] /backup

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Abackup.tar

Bbackup.gz

Cbackup.zip

Dbackup.tar.gz

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using wrong file extension like .zip or .gz alone.

Omitting the -z flag for compression.

The tar command with -czf creates a compressed tar.gz archive. The file should end with .tar.gz.

4fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to check if the backup archive exists and print a success message.

Bash Scripting

if [ -f [1] ]; then
  echo [2]
fi

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Abackup.tar.gz

B"Backup completed successfully!"

C"Backup failed!"

Dbackup.zip

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Checking for wrong file name.

Printing failure message on success check.

The script checks if the backup.tar.gz file exists and prints a success message if true.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to create a timestamped backup filename and archive the backup directory.

Bash Scripting

timestamp=$(date +[1])
backup_file=[2]_$timestamp.tar.gz
tar -czf [3] /backup

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A"%Y%m%d_%H%M%S"

Bbackup

C$backup_file

Dbackup.tar.gz

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using wrong date format string.

Not using the variable for the archive filename.

Hardcoding the archive filename instead of using timestamp.

The date command formats the timestamp, backup_file uses it in the name, and tar archives using that filename.