Summary
Autobackup is a bash shell script which will automatically compress and (optionally) encrypt
a directory tree, and tranfer it to a backup server using ssh or even email.
It uses a humanly readable configuration file for easy setup, and when setup as a cron job it
provides a very robust backup system.
Key features
- You can easily make new cronjobs for each directory tree you want to back up.
- You can make several cronjobs for one backup task, each for a different day of the week/month or different time of the day.
- Backups can be encrypted and password protected with ncrypt.
- Backups can be sent securely over ssh.
- You can now have backup archives emailed to you automatically.
- Makes use of tar+gzip2 for exellent compression.
- Option to exclude certain files (eg: *.o *.bak *.tmp ...) from the backup, completely customizable through the configuration file.
- Humanly readable and straightforward configuration file.
History
Autobackup was initially developed to create MySQL backups of the donationcoder.com forums from the main server to our secondary server.
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