All DreamHost hosting plans have full backup "snapshots" of your data (all the files and directories) taken at regular intervals (two hourly backups, two daily backups, and two weekly backups). This means that it is possible for you restore your site from a backup that DreamHost took in the last hour (that’s the latest). The procedure to restore your site from one of these backups is outlined in the reference link mentioned at the end of this post. You can also write a small shell script which will backup all the current latest contents of a directory of your web space as a .tar.gz file. Once this .sh file is ready, you can use cron to run it automatically at any time interval of your choice.
The following are the steps one should take to set up the daily automatic backups of this blog’s theme directory. The backed up file will be stored on the server as well as sent as an email attachment.
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