CompTIA Linux+ XK0-005 Practice Question

During your routine system maintenance, you need to create an archive of the /var/log directory to preserve the system logs before clearing them for the new fiscal year. You decide to use the tar command to create a compressed archive. Which of the following commands correctly creates a gzip compressed archive of the /var/log directory named system_logs.tar.gz?

  • tar -cv system_logs.tar.gz /var/log

  • tar -czvf system_logs.tar.gz /var/log

  • tar -rvf system_logs.tar.gz /var/log

  • tar cvzf /var/log > system_logs.tar.gz

CompTIA Linux+ XK0-005
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