bash-cloud-backup

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bash-cloud-backup is a bash script, which can be used to automate local and cloud backup in Linux/Unix machines.

Copyright Christos Pontikis http://www.pontikis.gr

License MIT https://raw.github.com/pontikis/bash-cloud-backup/master/MIT_LICENSE

ATTENTION

Version 2.* is not compatible with previous (deprecated) version 1.*

Version 1 has its own branch (version1).

More at https://github.com/pontikis/bash-cloud-backup/blob/version1/README.md

Release 2.2.0 (3 Feb 2018)

  • Preserve directories permissions and ownership in tar archive #82

The solution given in Release 2.1.9 works but it leads to very large tar files. In current solution a simple tar cpvf result.tar file file2 filen is performed (without use -T backup_list)

Release 2.1.9 (31 Jan 2018)

  • Preserve directories permissions and ownership in tar archive #82

Release 2.1.8 (25 Nov 2017)

  • option mail_only_summary #78

Release 2.1.7 (06 Oct 2016)

  • option disable_report_summary #77

Release 2.1.6 (06 Oct 2016)

  • BUG FIX - Do not try to create main log directory if logfile keeping is disabled #76

Release 2.1.5 (03 Oct 2016)

  • Leave blank both logfilepath and logfilename if you DO NOT WANT to keep the main log file #75
  • option export_session_log_to #74

Release 2.1.4 (02 Oct 2016)

  • modify report to present results at the top of the page (additionally) - problem with scrolling in huge pages in mobile devices (no way to go bottom) #55
  • bash-cloud-backup tmp folder

Release 2.1.3 (01 Oct 2016)

  • Bug fix: aws cli produces output with some non printing characters, so mail assigns octet stream MIME-type to log report and sends an attachment #71

Release 2.1.2 (29 Sep 2016)

  • option report_errors #59
  • option export_errors #62

Release 2.1.1 (29 Sep 2016)

  • improve docs

Release 2.1.0 (27 Sep 2016)

  • Support ionice and nice with commands tar, 7z, gzip, mysqldump, pg_dump, aws, s3cmd #60
  • Support trickle bandwith shaper (on S3 uploads) #64
  • Support of AWS Command Line Interface (AWS cli) #65
  • skip-after option (do not backup ceaselessly inactive projects) #57

Release 2.0.9 (18 Sep 2016)

  • Hide root processes (protect passwords to be exposed in command line) #53

  • Custom scripts (became four) #47

    You may create and use

    • on_backup_started.sh - before backup started
    • on_backup_finished.sh - after backup finished (and before Amazon S3 sync)
    • on_s3_sync_finished.sh - after Amazon S3 sync
    • on_logfile_created.sh - after logfile created and main script finished

    (these scripts are git ignored)

Release 2.0.8 (17 Sep 2016)

  • Log tar errors (without v option) #52

Release 2.0.7 (17 Sep 2016)

  • Improve error reporting #48
  • Security: avoid passing (MySQL, Postgresql) passwords in command line

Release 2.0.6 (15 Sep 2016)

  • Simple error reporting #48

Release 2.0.5 (15 Sep 2016)

  • Postgresql support #12

  • Custom scripts #47

    You may create and use

    • custom1.sh - after backup finished and before Amazon S3 sync
    • custom2.sh - after Amazon S3 sync
    • custom3.sh - after logfile created and main script finished

    (these scripts are git ignored)

Release 2.0.4 (14 Sep 2016)

  • Log filesize of backup file #45 (bug fix)

Release 2.0.3 (14 Sep 2016)

  • Log filesize of backup file #45

Release 2.0.2 (14 Sep 2016)

  • send mail report #46

Release 2.0.1 (11 Sep 2016)

  • use_7z option replaced by use_compression option #41
  • mysqldump_options added to backup section #37

Release 2.0.0 (11 Sep 2016)

  • Consolidation of all scripts to one script: bash-cloud-backup.sh #30
  • use crudini (https://github.com/pixelb/crudini) to manipulate config files
  • Display elapsed time #34

Release 1.1.3 (09 Sep 2016)

  • improve rotate delete

Release 1.1.2 (08 Sep 2016)

  • tar options as parameter #13

Release 1.1.1 (08 Sep 2016)

  • zip_file() function to init.sh #28
  • Log file beautified #27

Release 1.1.0 (08 Sep 2016)

  • rotate delete became more flexible:

    • setting days_rotation to 0 is disabled
    • with min_backups_in_rotation_period a number of backups can be kept, independently of their age

  • conf/initialize.sh reorganized and renamed to conf/config.sh

  • common/init.sh added with common tasks and utility functions

Release 1.0.5 (06 Sep 2016)

  • Remove deprecated scripts #23
  • Redirect gzip output to log file #22
  • Redirect 7z output to log file #21
  • Redirect s3cmd sync output to log file #20

Release 1.0.4 (06 Sep 2016)

  • Guidelines to escape special characters in passwords #17
  • BUG FIX error parsing 7z_filetype variable name #18
  • Script with custom commands at the end of the backup procedure #19

Release 1.0.3 (01 Sep 2016)

  • change default CMD_7z to create 7z package (not zip) #15

Release 1.0.2 (01 Sep 2016)

  • MIT LICENSE
  • S3CMD_SYNC_PARAMS user defined (including server side encryption)
  • use_s3_server_encryption deprecated (included in S3CMD_SYNC_PARAMS)
  • 7z compression added

Release 1.0.1 (28 Jun 2011)

  • minor changes

Release 1.0.0 (28 Jun 2011)

  • Basic functionality