Server Data Backup

This is a simple backup script using tarballs. This isn't incremental at all; but, it's an easy and free solution for personal webservers especially. I use this in conjunction with another SQL BACKUP SCRIPT; my server operates with ISPCONFIG 3 and all websites are SQL generated. So, this makes sense to do daily SQL backups and just bi-monthly backups with all files..

If you rely on SQL, check out my SQL BACKUP's HOWTO as well. It's a two-part system!

#!/bin/sh

# Backup Utility v0.02

# Create a /backup/ partition, put this in the path of /backup/directory/

# Removes the tarball from the previous execution.

rm -rf /backup/data/*.tar.gz

# Dates the new tarballs of current builds.

DATE=`date +%m_%d_%Y`

# Directory structure that is being tarballed.

# Have this be what is found in your "/" root

# excluding the /backup/ partition.

tar -pzcf /backup/data/bin.$DATE.tar.gz /bin/

tar -pzcf /backup/data/boot.$DATE.tar.gz /boot/

tar -pzcf /backup/data/dev.$DATE.tar.gz /dev/

tar -pzcf /backup/data/dist.$DATE.tar.gz /dist/

tar -pzcf /backup/data/etc.$DATE.tar.gz /etc/

tar -pzcf /backup/data/kernel.$DATE.tar.gz /kernel*

tar -pzcf /backup/data/lib.$DATE.tar.gz /lib

tar -pzcf /backup/data/root.$DATE.tar.gz /root/

tar -pzcf /backup/data/sbin.$DATE.tar.gz /sbin/

tar -pzcf /backup/data/stand.$DATE.tar.gz /stand/

tar -pzcf /backup/data/usr.$DATE.tar.gz /usr/

tar -pzcf /backup/data/var.$DATE.tar.gz /var/

tar -pzcf /backup/data/emul.$DATE.tar.gz /emul/

tar -pzcf /backup/data/home.$DATE.tar.gz /home/

tar -pzcf /backup/data/selinux.$DATE.tar.gz /selinux/

tar -pzcf /backup/data/srv.$DATE.tar.gz /srv/

tar -pzcf /backup/data/ssl.$DATE.tar.gz /ssl/

tar -pzcf /backup/data/sys.$DATE.tar.gz /sys/

ls -lah > /backup/data/rootmap

cp /quota* /backup/data/