Set done a simple automatically backup system for this site

I didn't forget I haven't set up a backup system for this blog site. So I got it done today.

Two things need to backup, they are

  1. the MySQL database
  2. the uploads directory that contains the pictures, files you've uploaded to this site

Since local backup is not safe, finally I chose the Yandex.Disk as my cloud storage. Just register an account in 5 minutes and you will get 10G cloud storage with Linux friendly sync feature. Yandex.Disk also supports symbol links, that's quite good.

run crontab -e and fill in below lines, the setting was done!

 15 3 * * * mysqldump --databases blog | gzip > /home/zhongwei/Yandex.Disk/backups/mysql/blog_`date '+\%Y\%m\%d-\%H\%M\%S'`.sql.gz
 20 3 * * * find /home/zhongwei/Yandex.Disk/backups/mysql/blog* -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;

As the uploads folder for my blog, what you need to do is creating a symbol link to the Yandex.Disk folder:

ln -s /www/blog/uploads /home/zhongwei/Yandex.Disk/backups/blog_uploads

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