In this hands-on lab, you’ll be creating a user-independent script that will archive a user’s home directory to a location on the system, which you’ll also be setting up. You’ll do a quick proof of concept, and then add other functionality to make the script run properly for all non-root users, as well as add an archive file check and success or failure logging. A colleague attempts to run the script while signed on as root, and experiences an error, so you’ll go over the script, note any issues that are preventing it from running for all users, fix those issues, and then test the results.
Learning Objectives
Successfully complete this lab by achieving the following learning objectives:
- Create a Simple Archive Script
- Prepare your archive directory
- Set permissions and ownership
- Create a simple archive script
- Test your script and troubleshoot if necessary
- Add Functionality and Independence to the Script
- Copy your script to another script
- Add some additional variables and functionality
- Make the script more user-independent
- Add a function check and logging feature
- Troubleshoot and fix user-dependency issues
- Test the Script as Root and Fix Any Issues
- Run the script and look for any errors
- Inspect the script for user or directory references
- Fix a directory reference issue
- Test and observe the results
