How to backup your website with cron, Transmit, Automator, Cronnix, Syncback and Jungledisk. The goal here is to (1) have the website backed up to your machine and also backed up using Jungledisk and (2) for this to happen automatically at whatever time interval you want. The idea is to set and forget. Part One discusses the other nightly database backups you may want to make.
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Using a cron job to backup your WordPress database (you can of course backup any database this way) The objective is to get a backup of the blog database emailed every night so that should the server die you will not have lost anything (or at least not much). It may look a little long but it’s a one-time piece of work and could save your blog. This was originally published here (by me, I’m copying no-one):
Part 2 of this backup plan uses this information too.
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