Automatic backup of your www folder in linux machine using rsync and cron

Dev Ops Foundation Project - For Linux auto backup using rsync and cron

download my project using https://github.com/ankurpatel18/autobkpLinux-rsync-cron-devops.git

1. create folder using

    mkdir -p ~/wwwbkp/rsync/
   

   Which will create nested directory on your root folder, named wwwbkp(inside root) and rsync(inside wwwbkp)

2. copy backup.sh file to your home directory, Which has below code

    #!/bin/bash
    rsync  -avz  /var/www/  ~/wwwbkp/rsync/ > /dev/null // sync your www directotry to your homefolder/wwwbkp/rsync directory
    tar -cvjf ~/wwwbkp/daily_$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M).tar.bz2 -P  ~/wwwbkp/rsync/ > /dev/null // tar your rsync content and added zip name with date in format of yyyymmddhhmm 
   

3. edit /etc/crontab file, open using below command

    vi /etc/crontab   
   

   or

    crontab -e
   

   then schedule the execution of backup script

     30 22 * * * bash  ~/backup.sh  // Command will excute backup.sh file automatically every day at 10:30 PM by cron. 
   

   Then save and exit from file.

4. restart cron service using below command

   sudo service cron reload