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We wrote tutorial how to crate cron jobs in CPanel and now we're continuing with instructions for creating a simple bash website backup script that works on Linux hosting environment.

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What does the script do

• Check if backup folder already exists
• Create if the backup folder exist
• Backup website files
• Backup website database
• Output errors to the error.log file

Create a file, copy/paste the following bash code and change variables to suit your environment:

Some readers of our knowledgebase (we prefer this term over blog), complained about mouse pointer size in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin. 

It seems that in some cases the size of the pointer is quite a bit larger than it should be (about twice as large as "normal" size), although the different cursors (editing text, hyperlink hand, etc) has correct size. The size changes to the correct size when the pointer is over some application windows (Netbeans, Firefox), but then changes back once it is moved out of the window.

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We constantly try not only to develop great web sites, mobile, desktop or facebook applications but also to share our knowledge.

Therefore, below is a collection of Entity Framework Tips and Tricks articles written on our company blog that could be useful to all of you.

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Differences between First() and FirstOrDefault() and Single() and SingleOrDefault()

Single() returns a single item and throws an exception if there is either none or more than one item. First() returns the first item or throw when there is no item. FirstOrDefault() returns the first item or return null (in most cases) when there is no item.

GNU/Linux is a stable operating system but some applications are not!

It could happen that an application doesn't respond to commands and it can't be closed using common method (a click on the close button or Alt+F4 key combination). 

If you experience similar situation, you can close problematic application by running the following command in terminal:

sudo killall %application-name%