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Simple website backup script

Leave a Comment / 2018-11-08 2021-11-06

I have used variation of this backup script for quick backups of typical LAMP stack websites (e.g. based on Drupal or WordPress). This saves the database along with the files into an archive… Depending on the website, there may be various non-web-accessible (private) directories to include in the script as well. Once the script is …

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Rolling Daily and Monthly cron backups

Leave a Comment / 2018-11-08 2018-11-08

This is an example crontab for “rolling” daily and monthly backups. Typically, the “/from/location/” will actually be a daily backup that is rsynced from another physical location (I like to have backups across multiple physical locations covering daily going back one week, and monthly going back one year). First make sure all of your back …

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