jsardev / vps-backup

Requirements

• Drive - Google Drive push/pull cli
• 7-Zip - Compression app

How to install

• Clone repository on your server
• Set executable permissions to backup script chmod +x /path/to/repo/create_backup.sh
• Create a directory in $HOME/backup
• Init drive in the backup directory
• Add HOME and PATH variables in your server's crontab
  • Make sure that drive binary is in the PATH
• Add an entry in your server's crontab, i.e. 00 04 * * * bash /path/to/repo/create_backup.sh
  • Make sure you add all required parameters
  • Make sure that you run script with bash /path/to/script.sh syntax, not sh /path/to/script.sh
• Enjoy your backups!

Example crontab configuration

PATH=/usr/local/go/bin:/root/go:/root/go/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
HOME=/root

# m h  dom mon dow   command
00 06 * * * bash /tools/tools-vps-backup/create_backup.sh -n serverName -d /var/www -d /etc/hosts -m true -mp mySQLPassword

Usage

You can run the script with following parameters:

• -n/--name - server name, i.e. -n vps1 (required)
• -d/--directories - backup directories, i.e. -d /etc/hosts -d /var/www (required)
  • if you want to pass multiple directories, pass each directory in separate -d parameter
  • directory files are taken recursively
• -m/--mysql - mysql backup switch
• -mp/--mysql-password - mysql root password

Notes

Remember to create a .driveignore file with tmp entry in your Google Drive directory!

Troubleshooting

It produces weird output and doesn't work in general

Probably the script has been commited from a Windows machine with wrong encoding. Try to convert the script to be Unix compatible.

• sudo apt-get install dos2unix
• dos2unix /path/to/repo/create_backup.sh