Easy rsync Backup with tar and cron (daily, weekly, monthly) 

I've spent so long looking for some of the contents of this tutorial online and found it here in one place. 2nd of your videos that I've found that have absolutely NAILED what I needed to know. Awesome tutorial, thank you.

Thank you so much, the best 22 minutes invested.

Great video. I used this for many months but recently wrote a new script. I just have one script rather than three. In that script it runs the daily every day and then uses if-then to check if it's Friday, it COPIES the day file to the weekly folder. If it's the first day of the month, then it copies the day file to the monthly folder. That way you don't run the whole archive three separate times and only one cron job. The rest is totally based on your tutorial. Thanks so much.

Really nice video covering useful simple scripting! Sweet!

This is gold. Amazing presentation of information ! You would make a great teacher

Very nice tutorial, specially for those of us who know little about Linux. This method implies you have enough space in the source to make the compressed backups to transfer to destination.

Awesome man❤... Really helpful

Excellent tutorial Exactly matched to my scenario Thank you so much

Very well explain video!! Thanks for sharing!

Awesome video. Thank you for your explanations and details.

great video. excellent explanation

Thank you for your video. Usefully.

Thank you for a great tutorial.

Great job and best explanation

well done - thanks for sharing.

Great video. I did need it. Thanks for doing the research (and for the videos)

Amazing thank you for this. Very good explanations.

thanks for the date command, I used to do that manually before

Really what I was looking for......👍

Great video, thanks for your help

great video! perfect for what i need - also subscribed

Thank you :) youre awesome

Owesome!, you really helped me. Thank you so much.

Nice video on tar, rsync and crontab 👍 I shall try the script but also experimenting with piping each of the commands into grep error and further piping into either touch error or cat > error-$(date +%Y%m%d), all in order to gate the steps and log errors. Also I shall experiment with creating tar.gz files onto a labile ram disk. Maybe better for speed and wear. Dunno. Kindest regards, friends and neighbours.

Very nice! Your a great teacher ~~ easy to follow :-) It helped me Thank you

thanks for offering this video. Would have been perfect if you also included the restore process.

Excelent..!! saludos desde Perú..!! Theacher

very nice thanks

Thanks bro

Clearly explained! Thanks! Any idea backing up to Google drive?

A good video; I was wondering why you used three scripts when one would have done the job, and you could have avoided the problem of the rsync command running before tar had completed its task? I was also wondering because you have created the three scripts why you didn't move the scripts into the crontab directory structure where jobs are run daily etc. I agree with Anders A you really need some logging so perhaps make a follow on video to show how you add logging into the script.

Cool!

What if you only want to backup changes to your directory. Presumably tar is not what you need to use for this? Eg if I want to backup my entire Plex library for redundancy purposes.

Shuouldn't you execute the rsync command at 01:00 AM for example, to make sure that all the backups are made before moving them?

can you explain the options

how about we make a filename as the username of the account + date

I never remember about the -C tar flag... what a handy option.

Great Great videos! actually how to include the password option in script without using public key? Appreciate in advance!!

Awesome video....loved every bit of it😍👍 Is there any reason why there is a space between the 'var/www' and the 'html' directories?

Is there any reason as to why run multiple tar arguments for monthly and weekly? Couldn't they just include an copy or hardlink command to the tar file that the daily script creates at that point? And in so decreasing the harddrive usage and decreasing CPU usage as you don't have to compress your files so many times?

how do i take an image of the entire linux server and restore it later?

Hello. when I use find delete command +3 it does not want to delete any files but when I use -3 it deletes new files ... I have files in the folder that are older than 3 days but they do not work .... find /mnt/exe/backups/nextcloud-db/* -mtime +3 -delete

Put Caveat on the --delete command

Hello, What about the database backup?

What to do when tar-ing files that are owned by root? I got many "permission denied".

"Execute the daily backup script everyday at 12:15 AM" - What if I want to backup at 8:30 PM for example. Thanks

Hi there, i am trying a whole week now to get rsnapshot running. Please, can u give an advice or recommendation for a tutorial for linux beginners? We are running ubuntu server, no problem with creating samba servers or webserver that serves us well, but until now - and after a dozen very different tutorials online (and everyone got so much differences) - we are just a few days before fucking the whole linux story and running everything with windows until ransomeware take us out. Before you recommend us to count the days until it happens and we deserve that - pleeeease reflect that out there, there are many small NGO's besides us (like aids help, abortion help, transexual help and other ngo's with just a few people who are really helpless and will shut down one after another in those days :( )

First of all thanks for video, very useful. It does however need editing as in several places you either make a mistake or get a bit lost. So it would definitely benefit from an hour or two of editing. Still a good video though. Thank You !

Andway to have the destination to be Google Drive?

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Should work on a mac also, correct?

Borg is a better solution. Look for Borg backup.