In my recent trend of covering Linux backup tools I have, so far, covered Flyback (”Quick and easy backups with Flyback“) and Backerupper (”Simple gui backup tool Backerupper“). Both tools are GUI tools that make the process of backing up your Linux files and folders a simple task. This time around I want to add [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Jan 22nd, 2009
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Back up your Apache web directory and database with this simple script
I administer a lot of web sites. And all of these web sites need backup solutions. Since most of those web sites use LAMP servers it only made sense to set up a backup system using the available, included open source tools. It didn’t take long to create a solid backup system and, with the [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Jan 11th, 2009
- Comments: 7
Using Cron to Automate Linux Tasks
Linux is one of the most flexible and useful operating systems available. One of the tools that places Linux at the top of the flexibility and usability scale is cron. The cron system allows you to automate tasks without the aid of third party software. But because few know how to use cron, it seems [...]
