Setting up automatic backups
Backups should be performed on a regular schedule. You can use cron to automate this process and run backup tasks at specified times. Webmin's backup facility makes this very simple.
How to do it...
You can convert any filesystem backup task created in Webmin into an automatic backup. Start by creating a backup task as described in Creating a backup of a selected directory or Creating a backup of an entire mount point recipes of this chapter. Perform the following steps to set up automatic backups:
Navigate to System | Filesystem Backup.
Click a link in the Directory to backup column for the backup you would like to modify.
Open the Backup schedule section.
Set Scheduled backup enabled? to Enabled, at times chosen below.
Tip
If you have a series of backups that you would like to run together, Webmin allows you to schedule a backup to run after another backup completes.
Select Simple schedule and Weekly (on Sunday).
Tip
Choose a more complex schedule—if you require one—by...
