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Webmin Administrator's Cookbook

By : Michal Karzynski
Book Image

Webmin Administrator's Cookbook

By: Michal Karzynski

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Webmin Administrator's Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Setting up automatic backups


Backups should be performed on a regular schedule. You can use cron to automate this process and run backup tasks at specified times. Webmin's backup facility makes this very simple.

How to do it...

You can convert any filesystem backup task created in Webmin into an automatic backup. Start by creating a backup task as described in Creating a backup of a selected directory or Creating a backup of an entire mount point recipes of this chapter. Perform the following steps to set up automatic backups:

  1. Navigate to System | Filesystem Backup.

  2. Click a link in the Directory to backup column for the backup you would like to modify.

  3. Open the Backup schedule section.

  4. Set Scheduled backup enabled? to Enabled, at times chosen below.

    Tip

    If you have a series of backups that you would like to run together, Webmin allows you to schedule a backup to run after another backup completes.

  5. Select Simple schedule and Weekly (on Sunday).

    Tip

    Choose a more complex schedule—if you require one—by...