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

Build a bash script that controls what, where, and when backups run. Schedule the executable backup.sh with cron and review logs and destination after runs. Test the script, use absolute paths to ...
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 ...
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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 ...