We assume in this little article that you want to make some back-ups but you don’t want super sophisticated scripts and stuffy things to roll on your machine. More than that we assume that you want to make a folder back-up and also a mysql database back-up. If you need something like that, here are some simples yet efficient ideas:

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#!/bin/bash
MAIL=`which mutt`
DATE=`date +%d-%m-%y`
FILE=site_archive_$DATE
SOURCE=/home/username/htdocs
DESTINATION=/home/username/backup/$FILE
ZIPFILE=$DESTINATION.zip
tar -cf $DESTINATION $SOURCE 2> /dev/null
zip $ZIPFILE $DESTINATION
$MAIL -a $ZIPFILE -s "The archive for $DATE" email@domain.com < /dev/null

That’s it.

If you want a database back-up script then just modify the source above like this:

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FILE=db_archive_$DATE.sql
SOURCE=/home/username/$FILE
DATABASE=`mysqldump -u username -ppassword --opt database > $SOURCE`

Even more you can copy your files to a different location using scp like this:

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# file transfer
scp $ZIPFILE user@host:/your/remote/path

You can also transfer a full folder:

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# folder transfer
scp -r your_local_folder user@host:/your/remote/path

If you have question leave a comment.
Enjoy!