Backupninja is a backup automation tool that allows you to easily manage scheduled backups of your files and databases. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the process of installing Backupninja on POP! OS Latest.
Before you get started, make sure that you have a user account on your POP! OS Latest system with sudo privileges.
Backupninja is available in the default repositories of POP! OS, so you can easily install it using the following command:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install backupninja
Once installed, you can start configuring Backupninja. The configuration files for Backupninja are stored in the /etc/backupninja/ directory.
You can edit the backupninja.conf file to set the default options for Backupninja backups:
sudo nano /etc/backupninja/backupninja.conf
Here, you can set the default backup method, backup directory, and other options.
The backupninja.conf file also allows you to define custom backup jobs for specific files or services. For example, if you want to create a backup job for your MySQL database, you can create a new file in the /etc/backupninja.d/ directory with the following contents:
# /etc/backupninja.d/mysql.ninja
# Backup MySQL database
[$MYSQL_DATABASE]
type=mysql
user=root
password=your_password
dbname=your_dbname
This will create a backup job for the specified MySQL database with the root user and the password specified.
After configuring Backupninja, you can test it by running the following command:
sudo backupninja --debug --now
This will run the backup job immediately and show the debugging output.
Backupninja is a powerful backup automation tool that simplifies the process of scheduling backups on your POP! OS Latest system. By following the steps in this tutorial, you should now be able to install and configure Backupninja for your backup tasks.
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