

OmniBackup is a MIT licensed Bash script which delivers the following set of features: “So, what exactly is OmniBackup?” you may ask. At last, I’m able to confidently keep abreast of all the ever-growing data that I have to keep safe. An end to all my hardships which I call OmniBackup. Therefore, I came up with an elegant solution to replace the old process which I found exceptionally error-prone. Also, someone has to manually delete the old ones to make rooms for the next ones. Even more, I had to manually track the backups to see whether they were successful or not. I even had to manage the schedule so that two backup scripts do not run at the same time. In the end, I found myself ended up in a pile of backup scripts and multitudinous cron entries which was a nightmare to keep track of. They face many hard times and struggles during their careers and the worse of them all is either a security breech or data loss.įor so many years I’ve been writing and maintaining backup scripts on and on, for every single database I added, for every single directory with critical data, or any other service I was running on every new server I got my hands on. But, system administrators know not all days are like that day.

It is celebrated on the last Friday in July and it has been celebrated since July 28, 2000. Update 2 : Official documentation moved to GitHub which means this guide won’t be maintained anymore and maybe out of date or inaccurate.Ī week ago was System Administrator Appreciation Day. Update 1 : OmniBackup now officially supports GNU/Linux.
