If you are a system administrator and responsible for managing servers than backing up data is one of the most important tasks of you. So you must have enough knowledge of backup tools that makes your task easier. Duplicity is [...]
BACKUPS
System Tar Restore - Feature-rich Backup Script (star.sh) for Linux
"System Tar and Restore" is an open-source program for Linux that offers several options to create backups and restore them. It consists of two scripts: One is the main program and the other one is a GUI wrapper. It has [...]
Borg - Linux Backup Tool featured Deduplicating, Compression and Encryption
Borg Backup (aka: Borg) is a deduplicating backup program that supports compression and authenticated encryption.The main goal of Borg is to provide an efficient and secure way to backup data. The data deduplication technique used in Borg backup makes it [...]
How to Backup Using Duplicity on Ubuntu 16.04
Duplicity is a software application that provides encrypted, digitally signed, versioned tar-format backup volumes which can be uploaded to a remote or local file server. It is supported in all major Linux distribution like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, Fedora, and [...]
How to Setup GitLab Server Backup
GitLab is an absolute solution for storing all your Git repositories. Taking backup is an important activity even when a few people ignore it because taking backups repeatedly are too tiresome and adds to their frustration as a developer. So, automating [...]
Setup Hot Backups of MySQL with Percona Xtrabackup on Ubuntu
When backing up a database, you generally don't want to stop the database. Because if you stop it, your application will become unavailable. But if you do not stop it, your backup might end up inconsistent and useless, due to [...]
How to Setup Centralized Backup Server with Amanda on CentOS 7
Amanda (Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver) is the most popular open-source backup and recovery software in the world that protects more than a million servers and desktops running various versions of Linux, UNIX, BSD, Mac OS-X and Microsoft Windows [...]
How to Setup GMVault Gmail Backup on Ubuntu and CentOS
GMVault is a user-friendly cross-platform and very lightweight command-line tool that setup most of the necessary rich features to backup and restore your gmail account. You can download it for free and install it on your computer using CLI. You [...]
Shell Script to Backup Files and Directories Using rsync
This article we bring shell scripts to backup your files and directories from you local Linux machine to a remote Linux server using rsync command. This would be an interactive way to perform backup, where you need to provide remote [...]
DD Utility - Easily Backup and Restore Disk Image Files in Ubuntu
The legacy DD is a command-line utility for UNIX like operating systems. DD stands for Data Description and the utility empowers the user to copy and convert files but it is a command line utility without any Graphical User Interface [...]
Duplicati - An Open Source Powerful Free Backup Tool
Duplicati is an open-source free backup program that creates backups with the ability to store them securely encrypted, incremental and compressed on cloud storage services and remote file servers. At the moment it has the ability to work with Amazon [...]
Systemback - Simple way to Backup/Restore your Linux System
Systemback makes it easy to create backups of system and users configuration files. In case of problems you can easily restore the previous state of the system. There are extra features like system copying, system installation and Live system creation. [...]
How to Backup MySQL Database using Bash Script
Regular backup of mysql databases is also as important as backing up your code. So I wrote this script to backup all of my databases on the local disk. I then added gzip to compress the sql file to save [...]
Shell Script to Backup All MySql Databases
In this tutorial, I will show how to write a shell script to backup all your mysql databases. Its very essential to take database backup in timely manner. The shell script will create dump of all databases from mysql server [...]