https://www.linuxhosted.com/tags/backup/Recent content in Backup on LinuxHosted.comHugo -- gohugo.ioenLinuxHosted.comSun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.linuxhosted.com/post/rsync-cron-backups-linux-vps/Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.linuxhosted.com/post/rsync-cron-backups-linux-vps/ <p>The backup you never tested is not a backup — it is a hope. Every administrator who has lost data has a version of the same story: the job had been &quot;running fine for months,&quot; and the first time anyone tried to restore from it, the files were empty, stale, or never there at all. The fix is not exotic software. <code>rsync</code> and <code>cron</code> ship with every Linux distribution and, used carefully, give you incremental off-server backups that run on a schedule and that you can actually verify. This guide builds that pipeline step by step: a sync script, a dry-run safety net, a cron schedule, and — the part most guides skip — a restore-integrity check.</p>