ISPConfig 3 - back-res a Backup and Restore script

[go0ogl3]

Originally Posted by StefanoVanzo

I think cyrus1997 is right. Can you please check.
For me in the script there is a dot (.) after /root and this prevents from backing up the /root directory.
If I am wrong, please tell me why.

working with IspConfig3 on Debian Squeeze 64bit
thank you for your work and you time

I've removed the space character after the "/root" in the download-able script so nobody will have any more issues with this.
It's seen as a dot by newer mc to show when you have free spaces after your last edited content.
If you wanna see just add one or more spaces after that "/root" entry, save the file then do a

cat back-res | grep "/lib /lib64 /root"

and see if there are dots...

Thank you for your time!

[skoena]

Is it a lot of work to change the script so it can also be used as remote backup script?

[go0ogl3]

Originally Posted by rudolfpietersma

Is it a lot of work to change the script so it can also be used as remote backup script?

Hello, if you mount anything remote, before de use of the backup script, and the backup dir is the remote mounted one, then you can use it as a remote backup script.
You can use samba (cifs) for remote windows shares, ssh, or anything you can think of and can be mounted, even remote internet drives.

I'm in the process of testing with remote ftp, but I'm not sure if it'll be good to make a separate script for this or integrate it in the backup script.
For now I'm using 2 separate scripts, partially because the script which makes the ftp transfer compares the files first, then makes something like a sync, but that is not needed here... so for now I'm not sure.

The simplest way now is to use a remote mounted dir for backup. For more info you can see: Linux Userland Filesystem

[vaio1]

Hi go0ogl3,

First of all thanks for your script. I have 3 production server boxes and one backup server.

I have installed ISPConfig in the Multiserver setup system. So I have different services for each server.

1. Server A
--->Web Server
--->SVN Server

2. Server B
---> Database Server

3. Server C
---> Mail Server

4. Server D
---> Backup Server

Is there a way to send the request to backup from the Backup SERVER to every other servers? I would like to load the script from the backup server and store all the backups files and directory in the Backup SERVER.

Thanks

[Toucan]

Cron runs the backup on each of my servers and writes it to the nas I have mounted on each.

All you would need to do is mount your backup server instead

Originally Posted by vaio1

Hi go0ogl3,

First of all thanks for your script. I have 3 production server boxes and one backup server.

I have installed ISPConfig in the Multiserver setup system. So I have different services for each server.

1. Server A
--->Web Server
--->SVN Server

2. Server B
---> Database Server

3. Server C
---> Mail Server

4. Server D
---> Backup Server

Is there a way to send the request to backup from the Backup SERVER to every other servers? I would like to load the script from the backup server and store all the backups files and directory in the Backup SERVER.

Thanks

[vaio1]

So, each server has a copy of the script, right?

I don't understand how have I set this variable in each server:

BACKUPDIR="/bck/$COMPUTER"

[Toucan]

Originally Posted by vaio1

So, each server has a copy of the script, right?

I don't understand how have I set this variable in each server:

BACKUPDIR="/bck/$COMPUTER"

Yes, the same script runs on each of the servers at different times

The variable backupdir dictates where the backup us saved to.

On my server I have a directory that mounts to the nas elsewhere on the network.

So my backupdir = /mnt/backup/$computer

$computer vRiable holds the name of the computer backing up.

[go0ogl3]

Originally Posted by vaio1

Hi go0ogl3,

First of all thanks for your script. I have 3 production server boxes and one backup server.

I have installed ISPConfig in the Multiserver setup system. So I have different services for each server.

1. Server A
--->Web Server
--->SVN Server

2. Server B
---> Database Server

3. Server C
---> Mail Server

4. Server D
---> Backup Server

Is there a way to send the request to backup from the Backup SERVER to every other servers? I would like to load the script from the backup server and store all the backups files and directory in the Backup SERVER.

Thanks

Hello,

The way I do it is to have a copy of the script on each of the servers and create on the backup server a dir for every server. For example:
1. on Server D I can make /backup/Server_A, /backup/Server_B, /backup/Server_C
2. mount the dir /backup/Server_A/ on Server A to dir /backup
3. mount the dir /backup/Server_B/ on Server B to dir /backup
4. mount the dir /backup/Server_C/ on Server C to dir /backup
5. define the BACKUPDIR="/backup/$COMPUTER" on servers A,B,C (you can have BACKUPDIR="/backup", but it's usefull to have a good name to your backups)
6. set up the cron jobs on the servers

Good luck!

[fordwrench]

I have a server that has debian lenny and ispconfig via the perfect server howto.

I am trying to migrate to a new server I have created with debian squeeze viat the perfect server howto.

I make my backup and when I try to restore I get the following:



oot@srv1:~/scripts# sh /root/scripts/backres.sh db all 2011-07-16
date: invalid date `07/'
/root/scripts/backres.sh: line 448: [: : integer expression expected

You want to restore db all to date 2011-07-16.

Please input "yes" if the above is ok with you and press [ENTER]: yes

Restoring all mysql databases from date 2011-07-16 to local server:
touch: cannot touch `/tmp/tmpbck/datestart': No such file or directory
touch: cannot touch `/tmp/tmpbck/dateend': No such file or directory
mysql: unknown option '-x'
mysql: unknown option '-x'
mysql: unknown option '-x'
mysql: unknown option '-x'
mysql: unknown option '-x'
mysql: unknown option '-x'
mysql: unknown option '-x'
mysql: unknown option '-x'
mysql: unknown option '-x'
mysql: unknown option '-x'
All restore jobs done!
Database all restored to date 2011-07-16!
/root/scripts/backres.sh: line 573: /tmp/tmpbck/maildata: No such file or directory


Can you please give me some insight as to what the problem might be.

[Toucan]

Hi google,

Been using the script for a long time on one server and now also have it running on a remote vm server.

I'm not that great with bash. Is there a simple line I could add to scp whatever files have just been written to my remote server?

Like:

 scp full_var-2011-08-16.tar.bz2 root@myip:/tmp

but obviously a bit more dynamic!



This script has saved my skin before!