{"id":326,"date":"2026-10-15T08:04:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T08:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/xavierportfolio\/?page_id=326"},"modified":"2026-10-15T08:38:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T08:38:47","slug":"cyse-270-task-automation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/xavierportfolio\/cyse-270-task-automation\/","title":{"rendered":"CYSE 270 &#8211; Task Automation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-645c687cba686c1379d03d372577cabc\">This article mainly focused on practicing Linux&#8217;s system administration by introducing task automation with using bash scripting and &#8220;cron daemon&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3fff64c1f7f92576e4cf2c87787179af\">I&#8217;ve developed an automated shell script to package, timestamp, and compress system directories into some secure backups, while paring it with &#8220;cron&#8221; to execute scheduled maintenance routines automatically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b7ecf577a90d3d82d1428958e268b648\">(First file being the task, second file being the completed task.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!selectors.core.file.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/xavierportfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41771\/2026\/10\/Lab-9-Task-Automation-1.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Lab-9-Task-Automation-1.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-779cd84d-c173-4990-af0d-de288aea7233\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/xavierportfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41771\/2026\/10\/Lab-9-Task-Automation-1.pdf\">Lab-9-Task-Automation-1<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/xavierportfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41771\/2026\/10\/Lab-9-Task-Automation-1.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-779cd84d-c173-4990-af0d-de288aea7233\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!selectors.core.file.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/xavierportfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41771\/2026\/10\/annotated-Lab20920-20Task20Automation-1.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of annotated-Lab20920-20Task20Automation-1.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-6c8683a2-534e-4c0f-8734-242410de725e\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/xavierportfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41771\/2026\/10\/annotated-Lab20920-20Task20Automation-1.pdf\">annotated-Lab20920-20Task20Automation-1<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/xavierportfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41771\/2026\/10\/annotated-Lab20920-20Task20Automation-1.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-6c8683a2-534e-4c0f-8734-242410de725e\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article mainly focused on practicing Linux&#8217;s system administration by introducing task automation with using bash scripting and &#8220;cron daemon&#8221;. I&#8217;ve developed an automated shell script to package, timestamp, and compress system directories into some secure backups, while paring it with &#8220;cron&#8221; to execute scheduled maintenance routines automatically. (First file being the task, second file&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/xavierportfolio\/cyse-270-task-automation\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":32850,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/xavierportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/xavierportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/xavierportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/xavierportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32850"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/xavierportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/xavierportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/xavierportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/326\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/xavierportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}