backups

We advise that you perform a full backup every week, and a database backup every day. We also strongly suggest that you export your downloads to one of the four external locations/methods, such as Amazon S3, Dropbox, FTP, or email.

If your backups aren’t external and your entire site gets wiped, the backups will disappear along with the rest of your data.

When it comes to restoring a site, the first thing you need to do is get your hands on the files and folders that you will be restoring...

ERACC: "I must admit, I have been a tar + cron Unix guy for over 20 years and never really considered anything else necessary for backups on Unix, until now."

Eleven is Louder: "DD is very powerful and rather under appreciated tool. Do note that dd does NOT have a progress indicator.

As such, I recommend that you apt-get install pv."

Linux.com: "We would all like to think that, since we are using Linux, we will never really need a backup of our data.

Now, let's look at this realistically."

Tip of the Trade: "Cron is great for servers and desktops that are always on, but if you want to schedule a backup (or indeed any other job) on a laptop or other machine that may not always be on, try anacron instead."

Apache Software Foundation: "On August 27th, starting at about 18:00 UTC an account used for automated backups for the ApacheCon website hosted on a 3rd party hosting provider was used to upload files to minotaur.apache.org.

The account was accessed using SSH key authentication from this host."

Backups are a technology or process that everyone -- everyone! -- needs to consider. This article looks at some on-line backup options for Linux that can apply to the spectrum of home to enterprise-class users.

HowtoForge: "I had the chance to use a DAT device (an old HP SuperStore DAT24) to make copy on tapes. I didn't want to install any new software to manage that task.

A friend of mine gave me this guide. It was in spanish and without any note about the author. I only translated it.

So, if someone knows who is the real author, please, tell me to give him the right credits."

Two RAID units, one for direct backups and one for networks, help us decide the perfect RAID solution for your home.

Using Amanda allows you quickly and easily implement a robust Open Source backup solution to almost any device, or even multiple devices simultaneously.