Automatic Backups with BackupBuddy and Cron

Step by step: How to build a solid backup strategy with BackupBuddy and simple cron jobs.

Backups are like insurance — nobody likes thinking about them until you need them. With BackupBuddy and a few clever cron jobs you can build a 3-2-1 backup strategy that runs automatically and lets you sleep peacefully at night.

In this tutorial we set up incremental backups, configure offsite replication to an S3 bucket and set up monitoring alerts so you know immediately if a backup fails.