Linux Tutorials on the topic “backup”

• Mirror Your Web Site With rsync

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: backup, debian, linux, ubuntu • Comments: 43 • Updated: Aug 06, 2018

  This tutorial shows how you can mirror your web site from your main web server to a backup server that can take over if the main server fails. We use the tool rsync for this, and we make it run through a cron job that checks every x minutes if there is something to update on the mirror. Thus your backup server should usually be up to date if it has to take over.

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• Perform Hot Backups of MySQL Databases with Percona XtraBackup on Ubuntu 16.04

  Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: backup, linux, mysql, ubuntu • Comments: 3

  Percona XtraBackup is an open source backup utility for MySQL. It supports all MySQL flavours like Percona Server, MariaDB, and (Oracle) MySQL. Percona Xtrabackup performs a Hot Backup for MySQL. In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a hot MySQL database backup with the OpenSource tool Percona XtraBackup on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus).

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• MySQL Incremental Backup - Point In Time Backup and Recovery of InnoDB and MyIsam Databases

  Author: nima0102 • Tags: backup, linux, mysql • Comments: 10

  Mysql Incremental Backup is a complete incremental backup script for MyISAM and InnodB databases using the MySQL binary log so that the backup process does not affect running databases. This tutorial describes the installation of the MysqlIncrementalBackup script and helps to troubleshoot issues that may arise during setup.

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• How to backup your Ubuntu Desktop with DejaDup

  Author: Gurujyot_singh • Tags: backup, desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 2

  Déjà Dup is a nice graphical wrapper around the command line backup tool duplicity. It hides the complexity of backing up the Right Way (encrypted, off-site, and regular) and uses duplicity as the back end. Déjà Dup does not use cron or similar schedulers. Rather, it starts a program deja-dup-monitor when you log into your session. This keeps track of when you last successfully backed up and will wait until the next scheduled backup.

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• Data Recovery Techniques on Linux

  Author: mudric • Tags: linux, security, backup • Comments: 3

  Data Recovery Techniques on Linux When one of my friends called telling me that he had accidentally deleted some important files from his drive, his exasperation was understandable. It happens to everyone at some point of their computer-using lives. Unfortunately, in his case, those were some extremely important documents that, had he not recovered them, could have proven very costly.

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• Set Up Rsnapshot, Archiving Of Snapshots And Backup Of MySQL Databases On Debian

  Author: grungy • Tags: backup, debian, mysql • Comments: 4

  Set Up Rsnapshot, Archiving Of Snapshots And Backup Of MySQL Databases On Debian This howto will show you how to install and set up Rsnapshot, enable archiving of snapshots and how to back up MySQL databases on Debian.

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• How To Back Up MySQL Databases With mylvmbackup On Ubuntu 12.10

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: backup, mysql, ubuntu • Comments: 0

  How To Back Up MySQL Databases With mylvmbackup On Ubuntu 12.10 mylvmbackup is a Perl script for quickly creating MySQL backups. It uses LVM's snapshot feature to do so. To perform a backup, mylvmbackup obtains a read lock on all tables and flushes all server caches to disk, creates a snapshot of the volume containing the MySQL data directory, and unlocks the tables again. This article shows how to use it on an Ubuntu 12.10 server.

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• Creating Encrypted FTP Backups With duplicity And duply On Debian Squeeze

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: security, backup, ftp, debian, storage • Comments: 3

  Creating Encrypted FTP Backups With duplicity And duply On Debian Squeeze When you rent a dedicated server nowadays, almost all providers give you FTP backup space for your server on one of the provider's backup systems. This tutorial shows how you can use duplicity and duply to create encrypted (so that nobody with access to the backup server can read sensitive data in your backups) backups on the provider's remote backup server over FTP. duply is a duplicity wrapper script that allows us to use duplicity without interaction (i.e., you do not have to type in any passwords).

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• Create And Restore Partition Images With Partimage

  Author: CSch • Tags: linux, backup • Comments: 1

  Create And Restore Partition Images With Partimage Backups are usually made in one of two ways - either file-based which means that single files are backed up, often via synchronization and on an external disk, or image-based which means that a whole partition is stuffed into an image file that can be restored on the partition, containing everything there was on it. This tutorial covers image-based backups using Partimage from a live desktop environment.

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• How To Back Up MySQL Databases With mylvmbackup On Debian Squeeze

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: backup, debian, mysql • Comments: 0

  mylvmbackup is a Perl script for quickly creating MySQL backups. It uses LVM's snapshot feature to do so. To perform a backup, mylvmbackup obtains a read lock on all tables and flushes all server caches to disk, creates a snapshot of the volume containing the MySQL data directory, and unlocks the tables again. This article shows how to use it on a Debian Squeeze server.

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