Question

how to take daily website backup as a zip in linux automatically

Answer 1

vi file.sh

#!/bin/bash

#Specify folders whose backup is to be taken in variables
DATE=`date +"%d_%b_%Y_%H%M"`
f1="/var/www/website.com"

#tar = Tape Archive tool for compression
#Creating same backup tar file for all specified folders
zip -r  /var/backup/file/website.com_${DATE}.zip $f1 

#Go to the backup folder location
cd /var/backup

#Show the size of the folder
du -sh

Cron

0 2 * * * /var/backup/file.sh