Chapter 5. Automated administration: Configuring automated offsite backups
This chapter covers
- Automating administrative tasks with scripts
- Increasing security and system efficiency
- Backing up local data
- Scheduling automated tasks
If there’s one thing that I’d hope I made sufficiently clear in the previous chapter, it’s that regular and reliable system backups are absolutely critical. But, in many ways, the hard part is the regular. Keeping up with important tasks with immediate consequences is hard enough; remembering to run some dull daily or weekly backup is pretty much a nonstarter.
It’s no secret: the single best solution to the problem is to configure an automated scheduler to perform the task for you and then forget about it. Until ...
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