# Backup Script A script for cloning systems using rsync. Copyright (c)2008-2015 Alexander Barton ## Usage ### backup-script Backup all or individual systems. Usage: `backup-script [] [ [ [...]]]` Options: - `-p`, `--progress`: Show progress, see rsync(1). - `-n`, `--dry-run`: Test run only, don't copy any data. When no *system* is given, all defined systems are backed up. ### backup-script-wrapper Backup all systems and mail the report to "root". Usage: `backup-script-wrapper` ### backup-status Show information about backups. Usage: `backup-status [-q] [ [ [...]]]` Options: - `-q`: *quick mode*, don't calculate backup sizes. ## Configuration All default configuration variables are read from the first file found of this list: `/usr/local/etc/backup-scrupt.conf`, `/etc/backup-script.conf` or from `/etc/backup-script.d/backup-script.conf` (deprecated). All systems which should be backed-up are configured using individual files in the configuration directory, which is `/usr/local/etc/backup-script.d/` or `/etc/backup-script.d/` by default (whichever is found first), and can be specified using the `conf_d` variable in the main configuration file. The must be one file for each system to backup (files ending in `*.sh` are skipped, as well as files named `backup-script.conf`). Please avoid spaces and other "special" characters! The filename is used as hostname for the system by default, but this can be overwritten using the `system` configuration variable. Variables in `backup-script.conf` must be prefixed with `default_` to define default values for all systems. All defaults can be overwritten in the individual system configuration files. For example: - `/etc/backups-script.conf`: defaults for all hosts - `/etc/backups-script.d/host01.example.net`: configuration for host 1 - `/etc/backups-script.d/clientXY.example.com`: configuration for host 2 ## Configuration Variables ### system System host name. Default: file name. *Note:* There is no `default_system` variable! ### [default_]user Remote user. Default: `root`. ### [default_]source_root Remote *root* directory, must end with a slash ("/") character! Default: "/". When saving the whole (remote) system ("/"), default excludes are set up automatically, which exclude standard system directories like /sys and /proc. ### [default_]target Local backup directory. The backup of each system is stored in a folder named like the system (see `system` variable) inside of this target directory. *Note:* There is *no* default, you have to specify this variable, for example as `default_target` in the `backups-script.conf` file! ### [default_]ssh_args_add Additional parameters for `ssh`. Default: none. ### [default_]rsync_args_add Additional parameters for `rsync`. Default: none. ### [default_]exclude_args_add Additional (exclude) parameters for `rsync`. Default: none. ### [default_]compress Enable (1) or disable (0) compression. Default: 1 (on). ### [default_]ping Enable (1) or disable (0) ping'ing the target system to make sure that it is reachable before calling `rsync`. Default: 1 (on). ### [default_]local Enable (1) or disable (0) *local mode*: when local mode is in effect, `rsync` is called without using `ssh`, which is a good idea when saving the local system. Default: 0 (off; use ssh). ### [default_]generations Number of generations to keep. Default: 0 (none). On a suitable target file systems (see `target` variable), this script can generate generations using snapshots: the script creates a new snapshot named with the time stamp for each generation inside of the system directory inside of the target directory. Supported file systems are: * *btrfs*: All generations are btrfs subvolumes and named after the date and time. * *ZFS*: All generations are ZFS file systems. Latest generation is named `current`, elders are links to the ZFS snapshot directories. The latest snapshot is always reachable using a symlink named `latest` inside the system directory. ### [default_]job_pre_exec Optional script to execute before `rsync` starts. Default: none. When the `job_pre_exec` script returns an error (exit code is not 0), the backup run is skipped! ### [default_]job_post_exec Optional script to execute after `rsync` exited. Default: none. ### Compatibility Variables The following configurations variables used by the backup-pull(1) script in job definition files are automatically mapped to the new backup-script variables: * host -> system * source -> source_root * pre_exec -> job_pre_exec * post_exec -> job_post_exec ## Exit codes - 1: Unspecific Error! - 2: Usage information has been shown. - 3: Can't read system definition - 4: PID-file exists! - 5: Pre-exec command failed! - 6: There have been systems with errors! - 7: Not all jobs were run! - 9: Aborted (CTRL-C)!