Create the following in openSUSA and the vim editor showing

Create the following in openSUSA and the vim editor, showing the commands used for each step 1. Create a cron job that creates an archive named “myfiles.tar” that archives all files in your home directory every day at 5:30pm. Issue the crontab –l command, take a screenshot of the output of the command.

Solution

# crontab -l
30 17 * * * tar -cvf myfiles.tar /home

In the above code , -c option implies compression

-v says to display progress of compression

-f to specify name for compressed file