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This is a super simple way to backup your system without spending a penny. It can be really practical, as backup is always important.
Someone said "When your data does not exist 3 times, that means it's not exist at all". So made some backup and backup your backup 
Here we go:
#!/bin/
date
echo "############### Backup of files on my server ###############"
backupfilename=server_backup_`date '+%Y-%m-%d'`
echo "----- Sql first and dumping current DB -----"
rm -f /tmp/backup.sql
mysqldump --user=youruser --password=yourpassword --all-databases --add-drop-table > /tmp/backup.sql
echo "----- Tar plus zip all files -----"
tar cvf /home/mybackups/files/${backupfilename}.tar /home/www/html/* /tmp/backup.sql
gzip /home/mybackups/files/${backupfilename}.tar
chmod 666 /home/mybackups/files/${backupfilename}.tar.gz
echo "############### Backup done successfully.... ###############"
date
***
Now let explain each line:
NOW let's Executing the Script
Name your file 'backup.sh'
To execute it you need to opne terminal prompt and start with a dot '.' so if you name your file backup.sh you will do .backup.sh
Now let's automate it because you probably don't want to do it manually everyday.
So if you want to auto run it everyday at 23h55 you will open your crontab with crontab -e and you will add this :
55 23 * * * /path/toyourfile/backup.sh >> /path/toyourlogfile/backups.log
and close your crontab terminal with :x
NOTE:
>> /path/toyourlogfile/mybackups.
If you want to set different time in your cron I recommend you to use this tool is super easy and it will do the job.
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Sidick Allalade, is Chief Technology Officer at Oshara INC and co-founder of the Osortoo web application. He loves solving complex IT problems, coding and everything IT. He has a good knowledge of online marketing and IT Governance, Audit and Security.
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