Commands tagged backup

Dumps a compressed svn backup to a file, and emails the files along with any messages as the body of the email

This deals nicely with files having special characters in the file name (space ' or ").

Parallel is from https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/

Use if you have pictures all over the place and you want to copy them to a central location

Synopsis:

Find jpg files

translate all file names to lowercase

backup existing, don't overwrite, preserve mode ownership and timestamps

copy to a central location

This script creates date based backups of the files. It copies the files to the same place the original ones are but with an additional extension that is the timestamp of the copy on the following format: YearMonthDay-HourMinuteSecond

The command as given would create the file "/result_path/result.tar.gz" with the contents of the target folder including permissions and sub- folder structure.

When need to pack the ZODB...

creates a compressed tar archive of files in /path/foo and writes to a timestamped filename in /path.

Use tar command for a backup info with a date of creation

A dear friend of mine asked me how do I copy a DVD to your hard drive? If you want to make a copy of the ISO image that was burned to a CD or DVD, insert that medium into your CD/DVD drive and (assuming /dev/cdrom is associated with your computer?s CD drive) type the following command

This command clone the first partition of the primary master IDE drive to the second partition

of the primary slave IDE drive (!!! back up all data before trying anything like this !!!)

The coolest way I've found to backup a wordpress mysql database using encryption, and using local variables created directly from the wp-config.php file so that you don't have to type them- which would allow someone sniffing your terminal or viewing your shell history to see your info.

I use a variation of this for my servers that have hundreds of wordpress installs and databases by using a find command for the wp-config.php file and passing that through xargs to my function.

Use `zless` to read the content of your *rss.gz file:

Instead of calculating the offset and providing an offset option to mount, let lomount do the job for you by just providing the partition number you would like to loop mount.

This will backup the _contents_ of /media/SOURCE to /media/TARGET where TARGET is formatted with ntfs. The --modify-window lets rsync ignore the less accurate timestamps of NTFS.

This will compress the root directory to an external hard drive and split it to parts once it reaches the 4 Gigs file system limit.

You can simply restore it with:

Very simple and useful, you need to change the word "directory" for your directory

create an archive of files with access time older than 5 days, and remove original files.

connect to a remote server using ftp protocol over FUSE file system, then rsync the remote folder to a local one and then unmount the remote ftp server (FUSE FS)

it can be divided to 3 different commands and you should have curlftpfs and rsync installed

this will connect to your hosted website service through the cPanel interface and use its backup tool to backup and download the entire website, locally.

(do not forget to replace : YourUsername , YourPassword and YourWebsiteUrl for it to work )

Suppose you made a backup of your hard disk with dd:

dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/disk/backup.img

This command enables you to mount a partition from inside this image, so you can access your files directly.

Substitute PARTITION=1 with the number of the partition you want to mount (returned from sfdisk -d yourfile.img).

This will create an exact duplicate image of your hard drive that you can then restore by simply reversing the "if" & "of" locations.

Alternatively, you can use an SSH connection to do your backups: