In order to have local copies of my web pages hosted on VPS I have configured rsync cronjob to sync everything during the night to my local box.
Sometimes with larger files you can encounter errors like these:
Received disconnect from [YOUR_IP]: 2: Packet corrupt rsync: [sender] write error: Broken pipe (32) rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(820) [sender=3.1.1]
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To prevent mail messages piling up from your crontab commands you add the following at the end of your crontab line:
>/dev/null 2>&1
or
&> /dev/null
Everyone knows that crontab entries look like this:
* * * * * /usr/local/bin/my-script
Which will execute command “my-script” every minute.
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One thing that comes very handy is usage of cron to make scheduled job to delete old files so that you can free up some space on your hard drive
# Delete Apache logs older than 60 days
find /var/log/apache2/ -mtime +60 -exec rm {} \;With this simple script you will search through Apache logs in folder /var/log/apache2, select the ones with access time older than +60 (60 days) and execute delete with rm command.