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This is a shout-out to all sysadmins in the world!

Choose no life. Choose no career. Choose no family. Choose a fucking big computer. Choose disk arrays the size of washing machines, modern racks, DVD burners, and electrical coffee makers.

Choose no sleep, high caffeine, and mental insurance. Choose no friends. Choose black jeans and matching combat boots. Choose chairs for your office in a range of fucking fabrics.

Choose SMTP and wonder why the fuck you are logged on on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting in that chair looking at mind-numbing, spirit-crushing websites, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth.

Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in some miserable newsgroup, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up lusers Gates spawned to replace the computer-literate.

Choose your future.

Choose to sysadmin.

You will of course have recognised a parody of Trainspotting:

Une affiche qui dit : choisissez votre avenir, choisissez d'être administrateur système.

This post is an extension to my former tutorial : Backup all your MySQL databases with one line of cron, which can now be considered as obsolete since some people reported having some issues with the gzip file generation.

So here is another attempt at dealing with the security of your files and databases on your domain.

In this tutorial, I assume your web host has Cpanel installed with the cron features that will backup everything for us at regular intervals.

To access the Cron Manager in Cpanel :

Go to Cpanel > Cron Jobs

Select the Standard or Advanced view – the choice is yours !

Let’s assume you chose the “Standard view” for the sake of simplicity and ease of configuration. First, backup your files.

Adminspotting: a life as a sysadmin

Backup files and databases easily with cron