Changes

Now that we can pull a backup from an SME Server without any user interaction and without adding any software to the standard SME Server installation we can now automate backups by pulling the backups to our backup machine.  

Now that we can pull a backup from an SME Server without any user interaction and without adding any software to the standard SME Server installation we can now automate backups by pulling the backups to our backup machine.  

Automating the backups is simply a matter of automating the above command on a calendar.

Automating the backups is simply a matter of automating the above commands on a calendar.

As the machine I was using to do the backup was also a Linux machine, the simple solution was to use cron.

As the machine I was using to do the backup was also a Linux machine, the simple solution was to use cron.

The use of date in the filename will append the day of the month to the filename this will mean that a new backup will be created for every day of the month and overwrite them next month, obviously if the next month has fewer days you may be left with a couple of backups from last month. This process can be enhanced or changed as required.

The use of date in the filename will append the day of the month to the filename this will mean that a new backup will be created for every day of the month and overwrite them next month, obviously if the next month has fewer days you may be left with a couple of backups from last month. This process can be enhanced or changed as required.

 

===Other Extensions===

===Other Extensions===