Backup Files

TAR
We have two different backup, full backup and incremental backup.

Let's pick our backup folder as /srv/www/htdocs.

To do a full backup, you need to prompt this command

cd /srv/www
tar cvz -g /tmp/backup/snapshot_htdocs -f /tmp/backup/htdocs_full.tar.gz htdocs

To do a incremental backup.

tar cvz -g /tmp/backup/snapshot_htdocs -f /tmp/backup/htdocs_incremental.tar.gz htdocs

RSYNC
Rsync backup is much more better than tar. Both incremental and full backup can use the same command to execute. Rsync will pick the changes on backup target without capturing the file snapshot.

rsync -ave ssh root@ip_addr_to_be_backup:/home/users /tmp/backup_dir