backups

As businesses increasingly migrate their databases and server applications to the cloud, the importance of regular backups to avoid data loss due to human errors, security breaches, or system failures cannot be overstated. Google Cloud Firestore is a popular, serverless, NoSQL database that's widely used for mobile, web, and server development. In this guide, I will walk you through the steps of creating and managing backups of your Firestore database using Linux Bash, ensuring that your data remains secure and retrievable in any situation. Before we dive into the how, let's briefly discuss the why.

Whether you’re a system administrator or a regular user who prefers an organized, reliable way to manage files, using command-line tools to manage archives and create backups is an essential skill. In Linux, the tar and zip commands are the most common tools for compressing and archiving files. Today, we'll dive into how you can automate these tools using Bash scripts for more efficient and reliable backups. Also, we'll cover how to make sure all needed tools are installed using different package managers like apt for Debian-based systems, dnf for Fedora, and zypper for openSUSE. Before creating scripts, you must ensure your system has the necessary tools installed.