Skip one-click backup apps. This rsync script gives you full control over what gets saved and when, plus logs and a few hard-won lessons.

A while back, I developed a PowerShell script that I use for creating air gapped backups of my file data. Even though I put a lot of effort into building this script and testing it over and over again ...

In my own organization, I take a multi-tier approach to data protection. Like so many other organizations, I use a continuous data protection solution as my primary backup. However, I like to hedge my ...

Id like to make a backup script for my server (I hae been up to this point manually doing it)<BR><BR>I have no issue w/ dumping my db completly every week as it is pretty small gziped.<BR><BR>My main ...

For the admins who are new to Linux, I want to introduce you to the cron tool. What is cron? Simply stated, cron allows you to create scheduled jobs on a Linux system. Say, for instance, you have a ...

Got a MSSQL script for backing up all databases on a server. It basically backs up all but the TEMP db. But what I want to do is exclude just two of the databases from being backed up. So I've got ...