Backups

Building for Production: Web Applications — Recovery Planning — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

Building for Production: Web Applications — Recovery Planning

In this part of the “Building for Production: Web Applications” series (3 of 6), we will devise a recovery plan. A recovery plan is a set of documented procedures to recover from potential failures or administration errors within your server setup. Creating a recovery plan will also help you identify the essential components and data of your application server setup.

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How To Install Bacula-Web on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Bacula-Web on Ubuntu 14.04

Bacula-Web is a PHP web application that provides an easy way to view summaries and graphs of completed Bacula jobs. Although it doesn’t allow you to control Bacula in any way, Bacula-Web provides a graphical alternative to viewing jobs from the console. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Bacula-Web on an Ubuntu 14.04 server that has Bacula software already installed.

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How To Automate Backups with object storage — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Automate Backups with object storage

Backing up important data is an essential part of managing any computer infrastructure. In this tutorial, we will build a script around the s3cmd command line tool which can be used to quickly upload data to object storage. We will then use crontab to regularly invoke the backups script and upload files to our Space.

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How to Install Rsnapshot on Ubuntu 12.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Rsnapshot on Ubuntu 12.04

In this article, we describe how to install and configure Rsnapshot in Ubuntu. Rsnapshot is a remote backup solution based on the rsync protocol which can be used to create scheduled, incremental backups.

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