Buckup 2

Buckup is a simple bash script to perform full or incremental file backups (using tar), and MySQL and MongoDB databases backups.

Requirements

Following commands shall be available to perform backup properly:

• gzip -- currently only gz archives a supported.
• tar -- for files archiving.
• mysqlbackup -- if you need to backup MySQL database.
• mongodump -- if you going to backup MongoDB database.
• ftp -- if you need to upload backup to FTP server

Usage

buckup2.sh <configfile> <mode>

configfile -- setups the backup parameters. mode -- full or update. Defines if full or incremental backup is required. The incremental backup can be executed only if full backup was performed previously.

Config file format

Config file contains set of parameters defined as: parameter=value

Common options:

• archive_name -- base part of all backup files. (see Files produced for more details).
• archive_path -- path there archives will be created.

File backup options:

• files_base_dir -- directory there files to be archived are located (e.g. "/var/www/localhost/").
• files_to_archive -- list of files and directories to be archived (e.g. "htdocs cgi-bin").
• files_to_exclude -- list of files to be excluded from backup (e.g. "htdocs/tmp").

MySQL backup options:

• mysql_databases -- list of databases to be included in backup. If not defined, MySQL backup is not performed.
• mysql_user -- user name to connect to DB (this user shall have read access to the DB).
• mysql_passwd -- user password to connect to DB.
• mysql_host -- MySQL server host name. Default: localhost.

MongoDB backup options:

• mongo_databases -- list of databases to be included in backup. If not defined, MongoDB backup will not be performed.
• mongo_host -- MongoDB server host name. Default: localhost.
• mongo_user -- user name to connect to the database.
• mongo_passwd -- password to connect to the database.

FTP options

• ftp_host -- FTP server to upload backups host name.
• ftp_path -- path on FTP server to store backups.
• ftp_user -- user name to login to FTP server.
• ftp_passwd -- user password to login to FTP server.

Cleanup options

• local_life_time -- amount of days to store backup files locally. If not set cleanup will not be performed. Cleanup is run only in base mode.
• ftp_life_time -- amount of days to store backup files on FTP server. If not set, files will not be deleted.

Files produced:

• archive_name-<date>-base.tar.gz -- files archive in base mode.
• archive_name-<date>-base.tlst -- list file (see man 1 tar --listed-incremental option).
• archive_name-<data>-upd.tar.gz -- files archive in incremental mode.
• archive_name-<data>.sql.gz -- zipped MySQL DB dump.