Automatic Debian filed backup

[brooks83]

Greetings,

 

I requie some help...I own a virtual private debian 7 server which I host a minecraft and team speak 3 server on it.  I have putty/SFTP access to the server and control every aspect of it... but what I want to do is setup a file backup probably via my filezilla program if possible.  The idea is filezilla or another program logs into the server... selects a folder, zips the folder, names and dates the zipped folder,  downloads it daily or every 12 hours, and then deletes the zipped folder off the server to save space but keeps the download on my local PC for safe keeping.  

 

I hope this was easy to understand what I want...

 

basically I want to automatically download a bunch of files everyday from my VPS and save them as a backup

 

any help with this I WOULD APPRECIATE IT

 

Thanks,

Brooks Bray

 

P.S. - This might be a goood show idea for linus tech tips... 

[Cruorzy]

I think there are more than enough how to backup data information gives, linus rarely do a whole video about how to setup these kind of things.

But one of the ways maybe not the easiest way to do it.

 

Create a crontab that indeed tar or 7z the files you want to backup, most of the time you are limited to storage so you make sure the scirpts delete the old one or overwrite it.

Or you can atleast keep up to 4 backups, and with your own PC you create some sort of Powershell script that connects by FTP to the server and copy's the most recent file.

There are probably some programs that would make this thing more easy, but i dont really like to rely on programs.

 

Or if you have some storage on Dropbox you should use that, so you have it on 3 places all the time.

 

Anyways if you use something like MCMMO for your MC server and it saves it values to a Database, can you PM me then? i am trying some stuff and kinda need alot of data.