<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">as a former admin for <a href="http://alt-hacker.org">alt-hacker.org</a>, the policy was to create an inline backup directory owned by root. that would be where the preliminary backup would go. then, after about a week, that backup would be moved (in it's entirety) to an external drive called "JustInCase" all of this could be done with a simple bash script that used rsync to sync /Backup and /media/JustInCase. and yes, an exclusion was built in so that the primary backup wouldn't have a recursive backup of itself in the same directory. that turned out to get complicated, so /backup was moved to it's own external drive under /media/backup (owned by root).<div><br></div><div>The nice thing about this arrangement was that daily backups were available should the need arise to perform a reinstall. We never got to that point, fortunately. </div><div><br></div><div>I am not sure that the newest flavors of Linux still use cron to manage timed jobs or not. All I know is that it just worked.</div><div><br></div><div>-eric</div><div>from the central office of the Technomage Guild, Systems retention Dept.</div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 21, 2017, at 7:26 PM, <a href="mailto:techlists@phpcoderusa.com">techlists@phpcoderusa.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><p>Hi,</p><p>I have one PHP Script using the AWS S3 SDK that I have configured to backup each site on a vps. I need to run it as root because of permission issues. What is the best practice in this type of situation?</p><p>The server is running Ubuntu 16.04 and Plesk 17.5.</p><p>Should I place all the backup files in the /root directory or create another directly such as /backups owned by root? I think I may have answered my own question with <span>/backups owned by root.</span></p><p>Thank you for your guidance!!</p><p>Keith</p>
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