An approach to generating a backup server is using a shell script.  A script can define directories to backup, and pass those directories as arguments to the tar utility, which creates an archive file. The archive file can then be moved or copied to another location.   Example Shell Script #!/bin/bash # # Backup script # # NAME: daily-backup.sh # PATH: /mnt/e/bin # DESC: Backup scripts, documents and configuration files to .tar # # What to backup # backup_files="/home...

If you are like me you probably have searched for clues to and found little... particularly when confronted by the errors as you unravel how this works.  Okay a slight exaggeration, there are snipets of info that people have solved this annoying issue in  making comments work in Drupal 8 REST services. The lack of collective information in resolving issues has meant hours of debugging and working through core code to understand what is actually happening.  If you want to...