WA Computer Science ATAR Year 11: File management, backup and automation
Students learn how to organise, back up, archive and securely dispose of files, and how to automate these tasks with schedulers and shell and Python scripts.
One content description from the full WA Computer Science ATAR Year 11 — Network Communications journey. All 13 modules below are in that journey too, with the same content — add just these to a class, or the whole strand.
Modules (13)
1
OS function: managing files
2
Folder hierarchy and file paths
3
File naming, shared folders and version history
4
Backup strategies
5
Comparing full, incremental and differential backups
6
Backup storage locations and the 3-2-1 rule
7
Archiving data
8
Secure disposal of files and storage media
9
Scheduling a task to run automatically
10
A shell script to automate file tasks
11
File Operations – Open
12
File Operations – Write
13
Automating a file backup with a Python script
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