Backups

How to Back Up a LAMP Server with Bacula on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Back Up a LAMP Server with Bacula on Ubuntu 14.04

After getting your application server up and running, an important next step is to set up a backup system. A backup system will allow you to create periodic backup copies of your data, and restore data from those backups. This tutorial will show you how to create proper backups of a PHP application, running on a single server LAMP stack, by using a separate backups server that is running Bacula.

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Building for Production: Web Applications — Overview — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Building for Production: Web Applications — Overview

This tutorial will demonstrate how to plan and set up a sample production application from start to finish. Hopefully, this will help you plan and implement your own production server environment, even if you are running a different application on a completely different technology stack. Because this tutorial covers many different system administration topics, it will often defer the detailed explanation to external supporting articles that provide supplemental information.

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How To Use Duplicity with GPG to Back Up Data to object storage — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Duplicity with GPG to Back Up Data to object storage

Duplicity is a command-line utility written in Python that produces encrypted tar volumes for storage on a local or remote repository. It uses the GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) to encrypt and sign its archives and the rsync algorithm to create incremental, space-efficient backups. In this tutorial, we will install Duplicity and go over how to back up project data to object storage.

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