Daily maintenance

[Avi Greenbury]

Paul wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm just wondering what kind of scripts/tasks people run on a daily basis.
> Currently I backup my home and /var/log directories.  Any other suggestions?
>
> Thanks.
>
>   
Across various machines:

~
MySQL dumps
/var/www
I've got a script which I run which tars all my commonly altered config 
files/dirs.

At work I've got various nightly jobs which generate reports (number of 
music files in user's directories, size of mailboxes, list of PCs which 
respond to a ping request) and email the results to me.

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Avi.