Backup issues (renaming and copying)

[jmd]

Hi,

I am wanting to preform an incremental admin backup locally and by ftp.
I am looking at the following for my backup regimen:

I want my locally created backups to contain a date in the filename:
http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=454

I want a local copy, and a remote copy of my backups, without running the backup twice:
http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=511

Will running these two together, in the same user_backup_post.sh file, have any conflict?
Basically, will it rename the backup then copy from tmp to the local admin_backups folder before sending it to the remote server?
I'm thinking the conflict will be where it has two different required paths. Should I be renaming it in the tmp location first before copying to the local admin_backups then sending renamed files to remote location with ftp?

the script:

#!/bin/sh

#set this as needed
RESELLER=admin

BACKUP_PATH=`echo $file | cut -d/ -f1,2,3,4`
REQUIRED_PATH=/home/$RESELLER/admin_backups

if [ "$BACKUP_PATH" = "$REQUIRED_PATH" ]; then
   if [ "`echo $file | cut -d. -f4,5`" = "tar.gz" ]; then
       NEW_FILE=`echo $file | cut -d. -f1,2,3`.`date +%F-%H-%M`.tar.gz
       if [ -s "$file" ] && [ ! -e "$NEW_FILE" ]; then
           mv $file $NEW_FILE
       fi
   fi
fi

RESELLER=admin

#where do you want to save the local copy?
SAVE_PATH=/home/$RESELLER/admin_backups
#############

BACKUP_PATH=`echo $file | cut -d/ -f1,2,3,4`
REQUIRED_PATH=/home/tmp/$RESELLER

if [ "$BACKUP_PATH" = "$REQUIRED_PATH" ]; then
      NEW_FILE=${SAVE_PATH}/`echo $file | cut -d/ -f5`
      cp -fp $file $NEW_FILE
fi
exit 0;

 

[nobaloney]

I am wanting to preform an incremental admin backup locally and by ftp.

Am I missing something? DirectAdmin's admin level reseller backup doesn't create incremental backups.

Jeff

 

[jmd]

No, I'm just using the wrong terminology.
What I'm wanting to do is merge the two scripts together:

I want my locally created backups to contain a date in the filename:
http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=454
I want a local copy, and a remote copy of my backups, without running the backup twice:
http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=511

And I am asking for advice on how this will be written and if they conflict (as per code in first post).

 

[scsi]

So add some curl commands to your backup post to ftp it somewhere.

#!/bin/sh

#set this as needed
RESELLER=admin

BACKUP_PATH=`echo $file | cut -d/ -f1,2,3,4`
REQUIRED_PATH=/home/$RESELLER/admin_backups

if [ "$BACKUP_PATH" = "$REQUIRED_PATH" ]; then
   if [ "`echo $file | cut -d. -f4,5`" = "tar.gz" ]; then
       NEW_FILE=`echo $file | cut -d. -f1,2,3`.`date +%F-%H-%M`.tar.gz
       if [ -s "$file" ] && [ ! -e "$NEW_FILE" ]; then
           mv $file $NEW_FILE
       fi
   fi
fi

RESELLER=admin

#where do you want to save the local copy?
SAVE_PATH=/home/$RESELLER/admin_backups
#############

BACKUP_PATH=`echo $file | cut -d/ -f1,2,3,4`
REQUIRED_PATH=/home/tmp/$RESELLER

if [ "$BACKUP_PATH" = "$REQUIRED_PATH" ]; then
      NEW_FILE=${SAVE_PATH}/`echo $file | cut -d/ -f5`
      cp -fp $file $NEW_FILE
fi

curl -T $NEW_FILE ftp://your-ftp-host/folder --user username:password

exit 0;

 

[jmd]

Hi SCSI,
Sorry about the delayed response but thankyou for your reply.

A great idea using curl within the script.

The second part of the script (copying locally before uploading) doesn't work and the backup fails. I haven't looked into why because if I'm saving locally and using curl to upload to the remote server I wouldn't really need the second part of the script. So if I cut that out I get the following:

#!/bin/sh

#set this as needed
RESELLER=admin

BACKUP_PATH=`echo $file | cut -d/ -f1,2,3,4`
REQUIRED_PATH=/home/$RESELLER/admin_backups

if [ "$BACKUP_PATH" = "$REQUIRED_PATH" ]; then
   if [ "`echo $file | cut -d. -f4,5`" = "tar.gz" ]; then
       NEW_FILE=`echo $file | cut -d. -f1,2,3`.`date +%F-%H-%M`.tar.gz
       if [ -s "$file" ] && [ ! -e "$NEW_FILE" ]; then
           mv $file $NEW_FILE
       fi
   fi
fi

curl -T $NEW_FILE ftp://your-ftp-host/folder --user username:password

exit 0;

This works fine for saving all backup files in home/$RESELLER/admin_backups with the date in the new filename but it's not moving anything to the remote server.

If I just run the curl from the command line:

[B]curl -T (any local filename in preset working directory) [url]ftp://your-ftp-host/folder[/url] --user username:password[/B]

It moves the file to the remote server without a problem, so I can confirm the remote servers details are correct.

I've tried to add the curl command to the line just below mv $file $NEW_FILE (inside the same if statement) but I get the same result, no movement, just an empty remote server.

Does anyone have any ideas why nothing is moving?