ProleWiki:Maintenance/Backups

The crontab

The script is called from the root user's crontab, configured to run at 40 minutes past the hour every 10 hours.

root@prolewiki:/etc/cron.daily# crontab -l
 40 */10 * * * /root/bin/backup.sh | tee -a /var/log/backup.sh.log

The log

• Cron redirects the output of the script to /var/log/backup.sh.log
• Zip logs output to /var/log/backup.sh.zip.log

There is currently no log rotation/truncation set up!!

The code

See /root/bin/backup.sh