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Backing up a Dedibox server (or most any Linux)

January 9, 2011 | 1 Comment


I finally decided to use a single dedicated server instead of several distinct web hosting services for the different blogs I run.
I picked a Dedibox server and added a backup option to have access to an extra storage space on another computer. There are two things I want to backup :

  • my website files
  • my databases

Since my backup space can not be used with rsync, I used backup manager to automatically save my files.Dedibox has a great article online about how to set this up for any Unix Dedibox.

For the database backups, I downloaded and tweaked (not much) the script shared by William Durand.

Everything is called daily by cron and, depending on the day of week, a full or incremental archive is created. After having one of my blog hacked, I really had to get busy working on a backup solution for my data.

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  1. Trackback on Samantha Halfon on January 9, 2011 at 3:01 pm

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