December 30, 2007
In part one of this tutorial, Automating Your Server Backups On Media Temple’s Grid-Server, I explained how to automate backups of your files on your grid-server. Unfortunately, not all your data was covered in those backups because it did not include your database. Now I will describe how you can utilize cron and mysqldump to automate database backups on the grid-server side.
December 23, 2007
Since running this blog on Media Temple’s grid-server, I was spoiled by the minimal effort required to backup my web stuff online thanks to the Data Backup utility available through the grid-server admin panel. Unfortunately, this utility was pulled over a month ago and I always want a backup to revert to in case an upgrade of WordPress or some other installation goes wrong. In this post I outline how to automate backups using rsync and cron.