Downloading sites using WGET

May 24th, 2008 by Peter Glaeser | 1 Comment »

Sometimes it is necessary to create offline versions of a page or a complete website. For example you might want to put an offline version of a site on your USB stick for a presentation. Or perhaps you need to create static backups of your site. Today I'm going to describe ...

Backup Scripts for Your Server

March 14th, 2008 by Peter Glaeser | 1 Comment »

In a previous comment I was asked to post a backup procedure that I use on my root servers. The following is a backup stategy that I use on my SuSE servers. Backup directories You create the following directories: /root/backup/scripts /root/backup/files Hourly backup script Create /root/backup/scripts/1h.sh with the following contents and make it executable: tar -czf /root/backup/files/partial_`date ...