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chris@im.allmendenetz.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• pepecyb@hub.hubzilla.hu@hub.hubzilla.hu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Well, you need to create a backup script. Either based on the snippet that @Alfred Bühler posted here, or, for example, as described in the admin manual, and name it something like hub-snapshot.sh.
  
  Then you just need to create a cron job for it. So
  
  crontab -E
  
  
  and enter the following line, for example
  
  0 2 * * * /path/to/hub-snapshot.sh >> /var/log/hub-snapshot.log 2>&1
  
  (for a daily backup at 2 am).
  
  You can also use https://crontab-generator.org/ to generate the correct cron job.

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  • chris@im.allmendenetz.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Thanks you !!!!!!!!!!

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    • harald@hub.volse.no@hub.volse.no ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      @𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼 There's an intro to crontabs and scheduling tasks here: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Guide_to_Unix/Explanations/Scheduling_Jobs
      
      The FreeBSD Handbook also has a decent section on scheduling and cron here: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/config/#cron-periodic
      
      (The periodic system I believe is particular to FreeBSD.)
      
      While there's no need to be an expert to host a Hubzilla server, a bit of basic unix knowledge is very useful :)

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      • chris@im.allmendenetz.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        @Harald Eilertsen my question regarding shared hosting was to evaluate if this is still a way we can recommand... personally i found a VPS more convenient but there may be a lot of others who more like to host with a shared host... also because a can be less expensive and not that complicated ( if one is used to install thinks like WP and so on... )
        
        we should provide some guidelines for that... so a list with hoster and some hints for installation and daily practice ... automated backups would be part of that.

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