I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed running a LAMP stack for a small site I host. I need to set up a system for weekly backups of the /var/www directory where all of my sites are. What is the best possible way of doing this?
rsync can do this and can also automatically append a timestamp to your backup files.
You can also put a rsync command straight into cron. As an example for a daily backup:
@daily rsync -ab --suffix=_`date +%F` -R {server}:/var/wwww /home/backups/
(this assumes you can already access this machine and that /home/backups/ exists and you also need to change {server} to the system where the files are)
The links posted in comments uses this as an example but has a better method end result: a backup script that you use from cron.
