References from the Ubuntu Server Guide by OnWorks

1.4. References‌

• For more information on shell scripting see the Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide1

• The book Teach Yourself Shell Programming in 24 Hours2 is available online and a great resource for shell scripting.

• The CronHowto Wiki Page3 contains details on advanced cron options.

• See the GNU tar Manual4 for more tar options.

• The Wikipedia Backup Rotation Scheme5 article contains information on other backup rotation schemes.

• The shell script uses tar to create the archive, but there many other command line utilities that can be used. For example:

• cpio6: used to copy files to and from archives.

• dd7: part of the coreutils package. A low level utility that can copy data from one format to another.

• rsnapshot8: a file system snapshot utility used to create copies of an entire file system.

• rsync9: a flexible utility used to create incremental copies of files.