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Mark Taylor - February 2020.
A simple set of scripts that backup various folders on a local Raspberry Pi server.
Make my amateur code better. Tell me how to make it 'better', more secure, more efficient and easy to update & maintain.
I am sure it can be improved.
Each script is run as cron job at a set time.
metmysqlbu.sh is run first. This creates a MySQL dump file and a corresponding gzip compressed version.
raspy.txt contains the password for the RSYNC account used on the Synology NAS. This file is excluded from the backup.
automatedbackup.sh is called after metmysqlbu.sh. This script backs up four folders in my case. However, any number of files or folders could be backed up. In this instance I backup, my account local bin folder, the data from my local weather station (weather), mysql_backups (files created in step one above) and all of my web files /var/www/*.
The RSYNC process is set to overwrite files.
The automated backup script will automatically delete MySQL backups older than 5 days. The number of days can be set in the script.
A wake-on-lan utility is used on the Raspberry Pi to 'wake up' the NAS, as it maybe in power saving sleep mode.
RSYNC installed and configured on the Synology NAS.
I have the Synology NAS backup the files from the RSYNC folder to Dropbox. To ensure that the data is off-site, i.e. not at home.
Very little error checking in the code.
I run this code on a Raspberry Pi 3.
- Linux - 4.9.35-v7+ #1014 SMP (Raspbian / Debian)
- MySQL - Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.5.62, for debian-linux-gnu (armv8l) using readline 6.3
Any reference in the code to fastpi is a reference to the host the code is installed on. My local Raspberry Pi 3.