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I automated Linux backups with a simple bash script and cron (and it’s better than a GUI)

Skip one-click backup apps. This rsync script gives you full control over what gets saved and when, plus logs and a few hard-won lessons.
Ars Technica

BASH backup script

I'm using a BASH script to backup some user home directories to another machine. I'd like to keep 5 days worth of backups, and have the script automatically delete anything older than that (I do it by ...
Ars Technica

Creating backup Scripts

Id like to make a backup script for my server (I hae been up to this point manually doing it)<BR><BR>I have no issue w/ dumping my db completly every week as it is pretty small gziped.<BR><BR>My main ...
Redmond Magazine

Automating Air Gapped Backups in Windows

In my own organization, I take a multi-tier approach to data protection. Like so many other organizations, I use a continuous data protection solution as my primary backup. However, I like to hedge my ...
Redmond Magazine

PowerShell Based SQL Server Backups Revisited, Part 1

A couple of months ago, I wrote an article on how to use PowerShell to back up a database within SQL Server Express Edition. Even though the technique that I described in that post works, the script ...