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An easy way to backup files to a local share

The example backup’s the files from the /var/www/html directory

#change to website folders
cd /var/www/html/

#find all subsites
for D in *; do
    if [ -d "${D}" ]; then
        echo "Generating backup for $D > " `date +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S`-${D}   # your processing here
        tar -zcvf "/mnt/srv-ttp-nas/server/"`date +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S`-${D}.tar.gz ${D}
    fi
done

#remove stale files
find /mnt/srv-ttp-nas/server/* -mtime +14 -exec rm {} \;

Add crontab to run backup every night at 3

sudo crontab -e
0 3 * * * /home/tom/backup_files.sh

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