Website Backup

This script is for automating the backup of sites, their web files and an associated MySQL database.

To Use

You can declare the settings in the backup.sh file or you may create a config file to declare all the settings. To run with a config file you want to run : ./backup.sh --config ./path/to/configfile.sh

To run you need to supply the following settings, either edited in the main backup.sh file or provided via a config file.

Location of Web files

   WWW_DIR="/var/www"

Provide the location of the files you want backed up, no trailing slashes.

MySQL info

   MYSQL_USER="backup"
   MYSQL_PASS="password"
   MYSQL_HOST="localhost"
   MYSQL_DATABASE="database"

Replace with the information for the MySQL database.

MYSQL_USER with the username for the MySQL database
MYSQL_PASS with the password for the MySQL user.
MYSQL_DATABASE with the name of the MySQL database.
MYSQL_HOST with the host/location of the MySQL server.

NOTE: If you do not use a MySQL database, do not enter anything into any of the MySQL settings. Leave them all blank or remove them entirely. You MUST remove them from the main backup.sh file though, even if you are using config files.

Backup Directory

   BACKUP_DIR="/backup"

Provide the location that you want the backup files to be stored, no trailing slashes.

Backup File Name

   BACKUP_NAME="web_site"

Set the name of the backup file.

Creator, ownership, licensing, etc.

This script was created by Fabian Norman for personal use.

This script is Licensed under the WTFPL license. See the COPYING file for the license.