Sometimes you find yourself in a situation where you want to know what your server is doing but you can’t get to a secure terminal to SSH in. What do you do? You look to cron.Cron is a daemon that can be found in Unix and Unix-like operating systems. What it allows you to do…
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How To: Use a cron job to backup your databases
If you run a web server that uses a database such as MySQL then you should be doing backups, often.When I was in charge of the web server for Kenzer and Company we used a 7-day rolling backup system. This system insured that, in the case of a problem, we had several days worth of…