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<li>Use elevated privileges to create a directory called /root/bin.</li><li>Use a text editor (such as <b><code><span style="color:#3366CC;font-size:1.2em;">vi</span></code></b> or <b><code><span style="color:#3366CC;font-size:1.2em;">nano</span></code></b>) to create a Bash Shell script called: <b><code><span style="color:#3366CC;font-size:1.2em;">backupVM.bash</span></code></b> in your '''/root/bin''' directory.</li>
→Part 3: Using Shell Scripts for VM Backup & Management: - moving away from using root, to admin user with sudo
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<ol><li value="8">Open a Bash shell terminal.</li>
<li>Enter the following text content into your text-editing session:</li></ol>
<code style="color:#3366CC;font-family:courier;font-size:.9em;">
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<li value="15">Save, set permissions, and then run that shell script to backup centos1. Since that script will only work if you are in have root's home directorypermissions, you will need to use the technique you learned earlier in this lab to temporarily become rootrun the command with elevated privileges. Confirm that this script did backup this image to root's your home directory</li><li>Use the <b><code>wget</code></b> command to download, study, and run the following shell scripts on-line:<blockquote><b><code><span style=" pointer-events:none;cursor:default;color:#3366CC;font-size:1.2em;">https://ict.senecacollege.ca/~ops235/labs/vm-start-text.bash<br>https://ict.senecacollege.ca/~ops235/labs/vm-stop-text.bash</span></code></b><br><b><code><span style=" pointer-events:none;cursor:default;color:#3366CC;font-size:1.2em;">https://ict.senecacollege.ca/~ops235/labs/vm-start.bash<br>https://ict.senecacollege.ca/~ops235/labs/vm-stop.bash</span></code></b></blockquote></li><li>Try to understand what these Bash Shell scripts do.</li></ol>