Dionis-90 / Bash_backup_script

This is script for backup MySQL databases and files from Linux-server. Upload file-by-file to your backup-server via FTP or SMB.

Bash backup script.

This is script for backup MySQL databases and files from Linux-server via SMB or FTP.

Dependences

For Debian-based systems

You will need to install smbclient or ftp-client and mailutils (optional, for sending unsuccessful report if you have mailserver)

sudo apt update && sudo apt install mailutils ftp

or if you need to use SMB

sudo apt update && sudo apt install mailutils smbclient

Usage

1. Put backup.sh and backup.conf to /root

2. Open backup.conf on text-editor and using tips set the necessary settings.

3. If you need to use ftp-client put .netrc to /root and set correct permissions

   sudo chown root:root /root/.netrc && sudo chmod 600 /root/.netrc

4. Open .netrc in text-editor and set correct authentication data

5. Set correct permission to the script

sudo chmod +x /root/backup.sh

6. Add cron-task to root-crontab.

sudo echo "0 2 * * * root /root/backup.sh 2>/dev/null" >> /etc/crontab