Here comes an example of a simple backup shell script that “tar“s the specified directory to an archive and uploads it on a FTP server using curl. Afterwards the local backup file will be removed. The only thing you have to do is define at least BACKUP_DATA, BACKUP_SERVER, BACKUP_USERNAME and BACKUP_PASSWORD.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 | #!/bin/sh
# Name of the backup file
BACKUP_NAME="backup.tar.gz"
# Directory of the backup file
BACKUP_PATH="/tmp/"
# Directory + Name
BACKUP=${BACKUP_PATH}${BACKUP_NAME}
# Backup data
BACKUP_DATA="/home/username"
# Backup server
BACKUP_SERVER="ftp.backup.tld"
# Username and password
BACKUP_USERNAME="username"
BACKUP_PASSWORD="password"
# Execute backup
tar --exclude=${BACKUP} -czf ${BACKUP} ${BACKUP_DATA}
if [ "$?" -ne "0" ]; then
echo "tar: Backup failed!"
exit 1
fi
curl --upload-file ${BACKUP} ftp://${BACKUP_SERVER}\
--user ${BACKUP_USERNAME}:${BACKUP_PASSWORD}
if [ "$?" -ne "0" ]; then
echo "curl: Backup failed!"
exit 1
fi
rm ${BACKUP}
echo "Backup (" $(date) ") successful!" |
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