how to create a backup and Restore plan of the key linux directories and other key data directories?
Friday, April 29th, 2011 at
12:11
Discuss how we might create a backup and Restore plan of the key linux directories and other key data directories. We also need to outline the application used to carry out this process.
Tagged with: data directories • key data • Linux
Filed under: Linux Applications
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There are a few ways of doing this.
1) You could use just tar all the folders every so often and upload them to a remote server via FTP or something similar.
2) You could use rsync send the backups to the server
3) my personal favorite- put the entire thing under version control, like git or mercurial.
Regardless of what you choose, you’ll probably want to use cron to automate it.
Well, for my personal and business data I use remote backups. Personally, I use http://www.backupspace.com it runs on a scheduler in the background, plus it will e-mail your systems administrator about each backup completed, and the files that were effected. Really easy to use and set up. Hard to find reviews for it as it is a newer company, but my experience has been great.
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