Via-profit automatic backup script

• This script performs automatic backups of given folders on any Linux-like OS
• Also perform automatic backup of Postgresql database if its needed
• Automatic backup rotation are included
• Logging with logs rotation are also included

Instalation

1. Just clone this repository into any of your server folder by running

$ mkdir ~/utils
$ cd ~/utils
$ git clone https://github.com/via-profit/via-profit-backups.git
$ cd via-profit-backups 

2. Copy and paste .env.example > .env by running

$ cp ./.env.example .env

3. Modify config .env file using given tips. Set up $TOKENS variable and fill settings in the section below

4. If you want to exclude some files from the backup. Copy and paste .backup.exclude.example into the folder where you will be backing up. Rename this file to .backup.exclude. And write down in a file the names of the directories/files you want to exclude. The sctipt will find the exclude file by name .backup.exclude and skip all of contained files/folders

$ cp ./.backup.exclude.example ~/the/backing/up/folder/.backup.exclude

5. Add execution permition to script file by running

$ chmod u+x ~/utils/via-profit-backups/via-profit-backups.sh

And we are ready to go

Running

Manual running

This script is designed to work with crontab, but you can run it manually by running the command in the console

$ sh ./via-profit-backups.sh

Crontab running

If you want the script to make automatic backups, you should create a cron job by running

$ crontab -e

or if you want to backup multiple users you should run this script from root user

$ sudo crontab -e

Write down a cron job to the opened file

30 02 * * * /bin/bash -c "/home/bablo/Projects/via-profit-backup/via-profit-backups.sh"

The time pattern is Minutes Hours Days Month Year. So 30 02 * * * Means that script will be running daily at 02:30