Poor Man’s Backup Methods

backup-local | backup | backup-rsync | backup-upload | encryption

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methods

• local backup + ftp upload
• local backup + rsync upload
• remote rsync backup

alternative tools

• borg
• duplicity – http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ & duply – https://duply.net/
• rclone – https://rclone.org/
• afio – http://members.chello.nl/~k.holtman/afio.html
• dump (bsd only) – http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?dump

as for database backups you might add a few mysqldump commands to the script or eventually use mydumper – https://dotlayer.com/extremely-fast-mysql-backup-restore-using-mydumpermyloader/