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There are various ways to back up files in linux and most of them are possible through already onboard applications like rsync and tar. I will demonstrate how to backup files using both, tar and rsync with remote and local destination. I will also show how to restore files in case you need it. So let's begin with tar. Options and their meanings will be shown below. Create the archive using tar to a local directory: [archy@host ~]$ tar -cvpzf backup-homedir.tar.gz --exclude=backup-homedir.tar.gz ./* options: c - create a new archive v - verbose output p - preserve permissions z - compression with gzip f - the filename for the new archive Extracting the archive using tar from a local directory: [archy@host ~]$ tar -xvpzf backup-homedir.tar.gz -C /path/to/destination options: x - create new archive v - verbose output p - preserve permissions z - uncompress with gzip f - the filename of the archive If you just need to keep directories in sync. For archiving...

NGINX is a lightweight webserver with much more features than just being a webserver, but I'm just going to dig a bit deeper into the webserver functionality for now. As the title says, this is about redirecting traffic from http to https using nginx. I'll be hosting the site on the nginx directly. This is how a simple config for serving static html might look like: [archy@websrv ~]$ sudo cat /etc/nginx/sites-available/http_example.com.conf server { listen 80; server_name www.example.com; root /var/www/html; index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html; location / { try_files $uri $uri/ = 404; } } If you want to redirect traffic from http to https, you'll have to do just minor changes to the config: [archy@websrv ~]$ sudo cat /etc/nginx/sites-available/http_example.com.conf server { listen 80; server_name ...