Backup using Webmin

Hi
I have a box with Fedora 9 on my home network, that's running Apache to host my personal website.

Using Webmin 1.510, I tried to backup a critical database file I have (only about 4mb), and I got an error - Failed to save backup. Missing or invalid backup directory.

I worked through the various fields in Webmin, but I was trying to backup to a USB flash drive. That drive was mounted, and I was able to save a small text file to it.

I'd like to be a schedule a backup regularly (6 hourly) to backup this 1 file - any thoughts as to what I have done wrong?

I'm a Linux noob - which is why I got Webmin working, to avoid having to use the CLI
Cheers

if its just the database you want to backup , google "automysqlbackup" and run that script once a day.

beyond that, i dont have much experience with webmin -- but backing up regular files is pretty easy in linux without having to use webmin. you can use rsync for example :



you can also rsync over ssh, man rsync for more info