#4 Need nightly website backups

[Dylan Trotter]

The website and database should be backed up nightly,
tarred and sent offsite.

[Andrew MacDonald]

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Seems that rsync and cron (or anacron) are the tools for the
job. A useful tutorial:
http://linuxgazette.net/104/odonovan.html

I will implement this on my desktop.

[Dylan Trotter]

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Whoops, didn't notice you had taken this one, Andrew.

I added a cron job on sourceforge that dumps a tarball of
the website and database to /home/groups/t/ti/timmyengine
every night. I then set up a scheduled task on my local
server that scp's that file to my machine nightly.

But, a more robust scheme would certainly be a good idea. I
recommend implementing a system similar to the one outlined
in the article you cited.

It might be useful to check out what I wrote in
/home/groups/t/ti/timmyengine/backup.sh for dumping the db
data to a file.