Archiving and Logging Data

This Challenge assignment is designed to solidify and demonstrate your knowledge of the following concepts and tools:

Creating a tar archive that excludes a directory using the $--$exclude$=$ command option.

Managing backups using cron jobs.

Writing bash scripts to create system resource usage reports.

Performing log filtering using journalctl.

Managing log file sizes using logrotate$.$

Creating an auditing system to check for policy and file violations using auditd.

Feel free to refer to the student guides and slides from this module's lessons as you work through the assignment. If you get stuck, remember that you can also use Google and man pages for more information.