Tutorial: How to Perform Backups and Crontab Scheduling on Linux and Unix

[@СергейЯкушев-ъ3д]

Excellent explanation! Thanks a lot!

[@MrGetstarted100]

very well explained! i was stuck with my uni homework in daily backup but really helpful video. Thank you so much for this video.

[@TheExpatProfessor]

I'm so glad that this helped!

[@sikuasijaak]

This was a very easy to follow and helpful tutorial. Thank you.

[@bqmstech]

thnaks you sir its very amazing session

[@subkhaliq]

Thank you so much for this video. The republic of china will forever be in your favour.

[@TheExpatProfessor]

I appreciate that. I'm always happy to gain support.

[@itismadebymonkey]

Thank you!

[@goldenmean8111]

Hello. Thank you very much. Its an excellent video. Can you please show us how to keep having always 7 backups only? I mean the a way to automatically delete the 1rst backup before write the 8th backup. Again thank you!

[@TheExpatProfessor]

I just found this message! I'm sorry about the delay. To automatically rotate backups, or any repetitive file, use logrotate. Type man logrotate and/or man logrotate.conf. This utility is built-in to Linux and provides outstanding file rotation options. You can even scp or rsync your files to a remote host within a script within the logrotate configuration file.

[@riadhossainbhuiyan4978]

Hello Sir thanks for this great video. Can you please make a video on rsync for linux backup on remote storage

[@TheExpatProfessor]

Thank you for your kind note. Absolutely, I'll be glad to create a quick demo of rsync.

[@TheExpatProfessor]

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[@shambhuprasad162]

I am getting error tar: +%Y%m%d.%H%M.tar.gz: cannot stat: no such file or directory please help whats the issue

[@TheExpatProfessor]

Hello! Be sure that you are 1) defining the variable in your script and 2) using the "back-tick/grave mark" not the "single quote" when addressing an executable function. The grave-mark is the same key as ~ , while pressing SHIFT A quick scripting rule: ' = do not interpret variables between the ' and ' " = interpret variables between " and " ` = run whatever is between ` and ` as a command Example: echo '$SHELL' echo "$SHELL" echo `$SHELL` (you'll need to exit this one after you run it, as it opens a new shell) (It looks like the problem is that your script is using a single-quotes instead of grave-marks.) I hope that this helps!