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How to Backup Home Folder on Linux With Tar
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Introduction
Creating regular backups is always a wise decision and considered best practice. In this guide you will learn how to backup your home directory on Linux using the tar utility. Your home directory is where all your user’s files are. Typically the most important data will be found here.
Go to Your Home Directory
Use the below command to go to your home directory:
```
cd ~
```
Create Backup Directory
Before backing up your home directory you should have a good idea where you want to store your archived files. For the purposes of this guide, we will create a Backups directory in the home directory.
Make the Backups directory:
```
mkdir ~/Backups
```
Print Absolute Path of Home Directory
The absolute path of the home directory in this guide is /home/me.
Use the following command to print your home directory:
```
pwd
```
Backup Your Home Directory
Backup your home directory now that you know its absolute path:
```
tar -czxf /home/Backups/backup.tar.gz /home/me
```
Tar Flags Explained
The -c flag tells tar to create a new archive.
The -z flag directs tar to use gzip, which has the extension tar.gz
The -v flag instructs tar to use verbose output. This means when tar is ran it will output each file added to the archive to the terminal.
The -f flag specifies the file to use for the archive.
Conclusion
It is important to take regular backups to prevent data loss. Additionally, its a good idea to store these backups in several different places. For instance, an external drive and cloud storage (rather than just one).
I hope you enjoyed this article. If it helped you, please leave a comment!
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June 12, 2024
Create a Child Theme on WordPress the Easy Way
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Introduction
A child theme is a copy of the parent theme. By creating a child theme you can make changes to the website’s styles without altering the original theme.
Additionally, when the theme is updated, the child theme’s styles will stay intact. If you made customizations directly to the parent theme you’ll lose your changes when the theme is updated.
Creating a Child Theme
Products such as managed WordPress by namedotcom don’t provide FTP/SFTP access to the host. In these situations you may scratch your head wondering how to create a child theme for your custom styles. With a plugin of course!
This guide uses the WP Child Theme Generator plugin.
Install WP Child Theme Generator Plugin
The first thing you need to do to in order to install the WP Child Theme Generator plugin is click Plugins from the WordPress Dashboard.
Then click Add New Plugin.
Next, type child theme in the search bar.
Click Install Now on the WP Child Theme Generator Plugin.
Then click Activate.
In the top menu bar, hover over Make Child Theme, then the subdirectory Create & Activate, and click on the theme you want to make a child theme of. In this case, Storefront.
Click Theme File Editor under the Appearance sub-menu.
Thanks to the child theme you can safely make changes to your theme files without overwriting your parent theme!
Custom CSS
```
#primary.content-area {
	width: 100%;
	margin-right: 0;
}

#secondary.widget-area {
	display: none;
}

.site-info a {
	display: none;
}
```
This is the custom CSS code used to remove the WooCommerce branding and sidebar in the guide.
Conclusion
Child themes are a way to protect your parent theme files and ensure your custom changes don’t get overwritten when your theme is updated.
If you are using a managed WordPress product such as namedotcom managed WordPress then you won’t be able to access the webhost to manually create a child theme.
WP Child Theme Generator is a great plugin, and use case, for such a scenario.
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