raqbackup.sh 3.2g

Get raqbackup.sh installed on your BlueOnyx Server

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Install it on your own

Please follow the instructions on this page. This page generates some lines of code which you'll have to execute on your source server - so there is no normal download procedure. But don't worry, you will see that it is very easy to setup raqbackup.sh

Since raqbackup.sh uses FTP to transfer the backup to another server you'll have to configure two servers. The source machine has to be a BlueOnyx server but the target machine can be any server with FTP-access.

• FTP BACKUP TARGET
1. create an user with FTP-access on the target machine. You can use the username backup if you like.
2. be sure to give this user plenty of quota - enough to store all sites & users on the BlueOnyx server
3. if you like create a special directory where raqbackup.sh should store the backup files. raqbackup.sh will create a directory under this directory with the hostname of the source BlueOnyx server. If you don't specify a special directory raqbackup.sh uses the start-directory of the ftp-session. If the target machine is a BlueOnyx server and the ftp-user is backup raqbackup.sh will store the files under /home/sites/site/users/backup/hostname.of.source/

• BLUEONYX HOST
1. please ensure you are using the latest version of the CMU tools on your BlueOnyx server. BlueOnyx systems that are fully up-to-date (yum) will be fine.
2. You are now able to customize raqbackup.sh to your needs. What you type is only visible on your systems and not submitted to us or to other servers. It is used to generate some commands in the textarea-field at the bottom of the page with the JavaScript-feature of your browser.

   General Options
   Hostname	Hostname of your source server: automatic will auto-detect your hostname.
   Installation-directory	In which directory do you want to install raqbackup.sh? /etc/cron.daily is recommended. This will start raqbackup.sh every morning
   Working directory	raqbackup.sh needs a directory to store some files. This should be a partition with lots of space
   E-Mail-Notifications	raqbackup.sh can send you status reports of the backups it generates. This option is highly recommended. Do you want daily mails? yes   no
   	E-Mail reports to:
   	Very detailed reports: always never first day of a month every Monday every Tuesday every Wednesday every Thursday every Friday every Saturday every Sunday
   Update check - online diagnostics	Should raqbackup.sh check if a new version is available? This is no auto-update but just a check. yes   no

3. What do you want to backup?

   WHAT do you want to backup?
   Backup sites and users with CMU	Do you want to use CMU to backup site and user data? yes   no
   	Do you want to exclude a directory from being cmuExported? yes   no raqbackup.sh moves the complete directory to a secure place before it starts cmuExport and moves it back to the original place after the end of cmuExport. Please never exclude any important system-directory!
   	Do you want to compress the several xml-files to a single archive? yes   no
   	Location of cmuExport:
   	CMU-directory:
   Backup MySQL-databases	Do you want to backup mysql-databases? yes   no
   	Location of mysqldump: Do a locate mysqldump to be sure the path is correct. You'll need MySQL 3.23.x or newer!
   	MySQL user: usually this is the MySQL user root. This is not the same user as your system user root. Both users should have different passwords for security reasons.
   	Password of this user: this is the password of the MySQL user above.
   	Do you want to compress the resulting sql-file? yes   no
   Backup other directories	Do you want to backup any additional directories? yes   no
   	directories: /etc/named Each directory in a new line, please. raqbackup.sh will backup the specified dirs and their subdirectories.

4. Where should raqbackup.sh store the backup?

   Locations to store the backup
   Store on source BlueOnyx server	Do you want to store the backup on the source BlueOnyx server? yes   no This backup would be stored under /home/raqbackup/data. If you have enough diskspace it's a good idea to activate this option.
   FTP to another server	Do you want to transfer the backup to another server? yes   no
   	Hostname or ip-address of target machine
   	FTP-user on target machine
   	Password of this user
   	Target directory e.g. /home/backup - leave blank if raqbackup.sh should use the initial directory of the ftp-session (where it will create a directory hostname.of.source)
   	Port for FTP if you don't use the standard-port (which is 21)

5. SSH or telnet to your source BlueOnyx server, login and su to root
6. copy the following text to your clipboard and paste it into your Telnet/SSH-client. These commands download the script from our server and replace default-values with the values you entered above.
   If you have JavaScript enabled and you changed something above, you should see some lines of code here - and NOT this text ;-) But if you like you can get the script from http://www.cgicorner.ch/raqbackup/raqbackup32g.sh and modify it yourself.
7. That's it. raqbackup.sh is installed and configured. If you want to start it manually, SSH or telnet to your BlueOnyx server, change to the installation-directory and execute raqbackup.sh with the screen-parameter: ./raqbackup.sh screen