Introduction
An application configuration was accidentally removed, but a readable compressed backup is available. The archive also contains a runbook that is not part of this recovery.
The preceding guided lab practiced listing an archive and extracting one selected path. This final challenge focuses only on that recovery decision.
Restore the Missing Configuration
Current Situation
/home/labex/project/backup-automation/data/config/app.conf is missing. The archive backups/manual-backup.tar.gz contains the last known-good copy and one unrelated runbook.
Scope
- Restore only the archived path
config/app.conf. - Restore it below
/home/labex/project/backup-automation/data. - Do not extract or change
documents/runbook.txt.
Your Goal
Restore the missing data/config/app.conf from the prepared backup.
Acceptance Criteria
data/config/app.confexists with:mode=production port=8080data/documents/runbook.txtremains the original prepared file and is not replaced by extraction.
Hints
How can I extract one path instead of the whole archive?
The guided lab placed the selected archived path after the archive and destination options in the tar -xzf command.
Summary
You inspected a backup and selectively restored one missing configuration file without extracting unrelated content.
