by horusfalcon
Hello again, everyone! Before we go any further, I’d better confess an error I made in an earlier article. While luckyBackup does have the ability to create compressed backups, it is not “built-in” to the program itself - it is necessary to pipe the output of luckyBackup through the compression tool of your choice with a “run after” command from the advanced options when creating the task.
Such tasks should be configured and tested very carefully. Built-in support for tar and bzip are rumored to be in the pipeline for future versions (a lot of requests from users have prompted this), but it’s not ready just yet. I’m sorry for any confusion this may have caused.
With that out of the way, we’ll be looking at how to use luckyBackup to perform two simple tasks. The first of these is an on-demand backup that introduces fundamental concepts. The second progresses from there to setting up a simple unattended task to help backup a selected user data set automatically.