Server Backup Reference

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Backup to Box.com using Duply and FTP

• Install duply and lftp: sudo apt-get install duply duplicity python-paramiko python-gobject-2 lftp
• Create directories: sudo mkdir /etc/duply
• Create backup: sudo duply fullsystem create
• Configure duply: sudo nano /etc/duply/NameOfBackup/conf
  • Enter GPG password: GPG_PW='SecurePassword'
  • Comment out GPG_KEY: #GPG_KEY='_KEY_ID_'
  • Enter Box.com ftp address in target: TARGET='ftp://UserNameOrEmail:[email protected]:990/FolderToStoreIn/'
  • Set base directory to back up: SOURCE='/'  (Set the base directory of the backup to backup the entire filesystem)
• Configure exclusions: sudo nano /etc/duply/NameOfBackup/exclude

  • /cdrom
    /dev
    /home/*/.cache
    /home/*/.ccache
    /lost+found
    /media
    /mnt
    /proc
    /root/.cache
    /root/.ccache
    /run
    /selinux
    /sys
    /tmp
    /u/apps/*/current/log/*
    /u/apps/*/releases/*/log/*
    /var/cache/*/*
    /var/log
    /var/run
    /var/tmp
    /zfsdisk
    /swap
    /swapfile

• Set Cron job:

• 0 2 1 * * duply NameOfBackup backup_verify_purge --force
  0 3 * * * duply NameOfBackup backup

Duply

Duply man pages – Ubuntu Duply

• Setup – 1
• Reference – 1, 2, 3, 4

Essential Duply commands

• sudo duply (name) backup
• sudo duply (name) full
• sudo duply (name) cleanup –force
• sudo duply (name) purge (age – 100D or 2015-01-01 formats) –force
• sudo duply (name) status

Rsync to Box.com

Not as efficient as direct FTP to Box.com.

• Setup – 1

 

 

Check Disk Usage

• ncdu -x -q
• df -h
• Sources: 1

 

 

Backup Crontabs

Method 1 – Use Crontab tools

• sudo sh -c ‘crontab -l > crontab[date].backup’

Method 2 – Use GZip

• Backup/archive: sudo tar -zcvf crontabs.gz /var/spool/cron/crontabs
• Restore/unpack: sudo tar -zxvf crontabs.gz

Read more: 1, 2, 3, 4