moddx / sshbackup

Create backups from your linux server and download them on-the-fly.

SSHBackup

Create backups from your linux server and download them on-the-fly.

SSHBackup uses simple SSH pipelining to retrieve the data and stores it locally.

How it works

SSHBackup connects to your server via ssh and executes a command or script of your choosing. The command needs to pipe the backup data to stdout, in order for SSHBackup to pick it up and store it in a place of your choosing.

An example would be the following command, which stores all data in the root-directory in a tar-archive, and writes that to stdout.

tar cfvz - / -C /

Parameters

• Host

  • the hostname/ip of the server to backup

• Port

  • the SSH server-port (default: 22)

• User

  • the user to log into the server with

• Password

  • the user's password

• HostKey (fingerprint)

  • the fingerprint of the SSH server's host key, for verification

• Command

  • the command run on the server, which writes the backup to stdout

• OutputFolder

  • the folder to store the backup in

• NamingScheme

  • (currently) the file to store the backup in. (planned) a naming pattern

Get it

Either git clone and build it yourself with maven or download a windows build here (signed with key id: F864BE90)

Dependencies

SSHBackup makes use of the following libraries:

• SSHJ (Apache License 2.0)
• Spring 4 (Apache License 2.0)
• Gson (Apache License 2.0)
• Commons Lang (Apache License 2.0)