How to Backup a Website on Unix
Marc-Antoine Ross March 30th, 2006 Add comment
I am always searching and searching for the same shell commands. I don’t use them often enough to remember them. Here’s one to backup your whole site directory into one archive file:
tar -cvzf ~/$(date ’+%F_%H%I%S%P’).tgz ~/domain.com/
This will backup the whole folder “domain.com” into an archive. The filename will include a timestamp, which is quite useful!