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+backup(8) Thunix backup backup(8)
+
+NAME backup - creating data backup script
+
+SYNOPSIS backup
+
+DESCRIPTION Thunix uses a daily cron job that runs /usr/local/bin/backup
+script to store tar gzip compressed files located on local disk in BACKUP
+
+Cycle: full weekly and incrementals daily.
+
+Incremental backup restore process:
+  First extract files from the full backup.
+  Then extract files in the correct order from each incremental backup.
+
+BUGS No known bugs.
+
+SEE ALSO tar(1), gzip(1), crontab(1), find(1), mysqldump(1)
+
+AUTHOR Thunix Corporation (http://thunix.net)
+
+11.0 24 September 2021 backup(8)