Simple customizable Bash script for backing up a website This is just my first attempt to learn some Bash and to do something usefull with it. And I also was trying to learn how to pass arguments to a script. After been configured, it will download all files and folders (you can optionally download only root dir with -v option) in a temp directory and then create a compressed tarball with that files.
Just download the .sh file and give it permissions to execute with:
chmod +x /path/to/script/website-backup.sh
Open the script and edit the first lines according to your website FTP credentials, change USERNAME with your FTP username, PASSWORD with the password and SERVER with the FTP server without adding ftp:// at the beginning.
##1. Complete backup Call the script without any parameters like:
sh /path/to/script/website-backup.sh
This will produce a backup of the entire selected website with every subfolders in it.
##2. Quick backup You can execute the script with the -v option at the end like:
sh /path/to/script/website-backup.sh -v
In that way the script will only backup the main folder of the website, skipping the backup of the subfolders.
- Check if temp directory already exists
- Check if temp directory is not empty
- Check if connection is ok else echo an error message
- Ask for the name of website so we can rename final packet in something like backup-$SITENAME-$giorno.tar.gz
- Other things I cannot remember now