Need help setting up a cron job to back up website and databases

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by adell50, Oct 14, 2011.

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    Newbie here

    I have a a blog and a daily deal site (both in .php) that I would like to have backed up at regular intervals in the event I make errors in development.

    I have found these articles on how to do it, but do not have experience in the technologies they say I must be familiar with.

    (gs):Create timestamped database backups
    http://wiki.mediatemple.net/w/(gs):Create_timestamped_database_backups

    (gs):Create timestamped website backups
    http://wiki.mediatemple.net/w/(gs):Create_timestamped_website_backups

    Does anyone have advice on how I can most easily start to learn these technologies?

    Many thanks?

    Aaron
     
    adell50, Oct 14, 2011 IP