Ask your system administrator (or someone knowledgeable) to demonstrate the use of tar to produce a backup tape of your files.

What will be an ideal response?

If you have a kind system administrator who isn’t buried in things to do (which is rare) they
should be able to put a tape into a drive and type a single tar command to create an archive of a
home directory. They will need to become the super-user in order to do this.

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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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Why you should not be opening email attachments that contain an animation or a movie?

a. Because it's against company policy to watch movies at work. b. Because the attachment might contain a virus or malware. c. Because you know the person who sent the email. d. None of the above.

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