This is a super easy way to back up your system without spending a dime. It can really come in handy, as backup is always important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Someone said “When your data doesn’t exist three times, it means it doesn’t exist at all.” So make backups and save your backups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here we are:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Now let’s explain each line:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n date => we want to see the server date in our log file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n backupfilename=server_backup_`date ‘+%Y-%m-%d’` => backup file name with date<\/p>\n\n\n\n rm -f \/tmp\/backup.sql ==> we delete the old generated sql backup file<\/p>\n\n\n\n mysqldump => we backup all sql databases again<\/p>\n\n\n\n tar cvf home\/www\/html\/ \/tmp\/backup.sql => You back up everything home\/www\/html\/* and \/tmp\/backup.sql You can also exclude certain paths with: \u2013exclude=’yourfilepath’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now let’s run the script<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Name your file ‘backup.sh’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To run it, you need to open the terminal prompt and start with a dot ‘.’. So if you name your file backup.sh, you will get .backup.sh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now we’re going to automate it because you probably don’t want to do it manually every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So if you want to run it automatically every day at 11:55 p.m., you open your crontab with crontab -e and add this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n And, close your crontab terminal with \u201c:x\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n NOTE:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n >> \/path\/toyourlogfile\/mybackups.log is not required, it is only necessary if you want to be able to see your backup log in case of an error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you want to set a different time in your cron I recommend using this tool which is super easy and will get the job done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a Linux environment, I use a Bash backup script to specify the directory I want to archive, copy the files to a backup location, and maintain a reliable backup of my file system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n#!\/bin\/\n\ndate\n\necho \"############### Backup of files on my server ###############\"\n\nbackupfilename=server_backup_`date '+%Y-%m-%d'`\n\necho \"----- Sql first and dumping current DB -----\"\n\nrm -f \/tmp\/backup.sql\n\nmysqldump --user=youruser --password=yourpassword --all-databases --add-drop-table > \/tmp\/backup.sql\n\necho \"----- Tar plus zip all files -----\"\n\ntar cvf \/home\/mybackups\/files\/${backupfilename}.tar \/home\/www\/html\/* \/tmp\/backup.sql\n\ngzip \/home\/mybackups\/files\/${backupfilename}.tar\n\nchmod 666 \/home\/mybackups\/files\/${backupfilename}.tar.gz\n\necho \"############### Backup done successfully.... ###############\"\n\ndate\n\n***<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n55 23 * * * \/path\/toyourfile\/backup.sh >> \/path\/toyourlogfile\/backups.log<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n