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If i understand correctly /Volumes/Files_Backup_1 is your mount point. The mount point will always be there, because it is part of the parent FS. To make sure you have something mounted there you...

This sort of issue is frequently encountered when you have network issues, and/or the nfs-server is not responding... Can be a nightmare if you have filesystems already mounted and e.g. had an ls of...

You may use the day of the week:

mysqldump ... > database_$(date +%w).sql

You can use following curl & unzip commands in your shell script -

curl -O HTTP_URL_FOR_ZIP_FILE
unzip ZIP_FILE_NAME -d EXTRACT_DIR

I was confused a moment until I saw how you were connecting to the remote server, yes, --compress should help.

You're running mysql 4 times when you only needed to run it once. Using -D makes it...

27 megabytes of what? Text from mysqldump? Any sort of compression should shrink that fantastically.

Instead of constantly using root to drop entire databases -- might just be the teensiest bit...

Syntax looks ok, but the following syntax would be more robust if the directory might not be there:
0 3 * * 0 [ -d /Volumes/Files_Backup_1 ] && cd /Volumes/Files_Backup_1 && /usr/sbin/mailbfr -b...

Can't you help much on this. I know a similar situation from a Linux box which was running out of memory, swapping heavily and to get some more memory free just killed randomly(?) processes, until we...

So if you need find out which folder use the most space try below steps:

cd /
ls |grep -v Volumes> temp
cat temp |xargs du -sk |sort -n # with that, you will find the biggest folder.

for...

Well I have never seen a unix or Linux behave like this.
There is a long-standing unix quirk where it was possible to mount on top of a directory which contained files and thus hide the underlying...