Introduction This article provides a quick way to backup the most common things in a typical web hosting scenario: website files and database data. We will setup a full daily backup of a website folder and a copying of this data to a remote server (this can also work for another VPS). We will also set up a rsync example to just copy the incremental changes. Finally, we'll set up backup of a MySQL database. The procedures described use a few simple Bash commands, rsync and cron to schedule backups. For example data, we can install Wordpress as per this tutorial. It will place Wordpress in /var/www/wordpress directory and a MySQL databasewordpress and we now want to take a backup of all the data. DigitalOcean provides <ahref="https: www.digitalocean.com="" community="" articles="" digitalocean-backups-and-snapshots-explained"="">Snapshots and Backups, to handle backups and snapshots very well. There are also excellent backup-as-a-service solutions that work with the minimum configuration. But sometimes we want to use another backup server or perhaps an inhouse server, and we want a quick way to pull the data from webhost back to our server. In that case, these tips can help. There are two ways to do backup: incremental and full backups. A full backup copies all the data, while the snapshot only handles the changes since the last update. Full Backup Full backup typically does the following: Make an archive of all the files in a folder Copy the resulting archive to a remote server. As noted, our data will reside in /var/www/wordpress directory. We will designate a backup folder location. mkdir -p /backup/wordpress The…