Backup best practices

[dsecareanu]

I provided an option for automating Ghost backups by using linux scripts here:

Best way to backup ghost self hosted

There’s no wasy way to do a Ghost backup unless you go the linux bash scripting way. You could create a cron job to do the following: cd /path/to/ghost/ tar cvfz ghost-site/ ghost-site.tar.gz cp -Rv /path/to/ghost/archive.tar.gz /backup/location/ mysqldump -u user -p mysqlserver (localhost) ghost_db > ghost_db.sql mysqldump -u user -p -h mysqlserver (remote) ghost_db > ghost_db.sql cp -Rv ghost_db.sql /backup/location/ You can put the above into a backup.sh script so you only run a single cro…

There are others, of course (if you search on Google you will find a few python scripts as well).