Autmatic backup as a cronjob?

Hi,

we all know, that a manual backup by using the Backup manager isn't the
most reliable backup solution.

Is it possible to backup all necessary files and directories with a
script called by a cronjob?

Bye,

Stefan

Zitat von Stefan-Michael Guenther <s.guenther(a)in-put.de>:

Hi,

we all know, that a manual backup by using the Backup manager isn't the
most reliable backup solution.

Is it possible to backup all necessary files and directories with a
script called by a cronjob?

The Backup manager is able to do scheduled backups. It needs a SMB
share to do so, but that should be no problem as it is recommended to
store the backup on an other machine anyway, no? For how to use the
backup manager have a look at
http://www.djigzo.com/documents/administration-guide.pdf in chapter 20.

Regards

Andreas

As already explained by Andreas you can use the built-in scheduled
backup to backup to an SMB share, aka CIFS (see Admin -> Backup manager
-> Backup). If this is not sufficient, you can backup using your own
script (for example called from a cronjob) by directly calling the
backup script in DJIGZO_HOME/scripts/dobackup.sh.

Usage

Usage: (-r | -b | -l) -f file [-p password] args

for example to backup all settings to a tar file use:

dobackup.sh -b -f ~/backup.tar

to create a backup encrypted with PGP encryption with password "test" use:

dobackup.sh -b -f ~/backup.tar.pgp -p test

Kind regards,

Martijn

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On 07/25/2011 06:45 PM, Stefan-Michael Guenther wrote:

we all know, that a manual backup by using the Backup manager isn't the
most reliable backup solution.

Is it possible to backup all necessary files and directories with a
script called by a cronjob?

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Hi,

sorry, I did not recognize the link "backup config".

Thanks for the hint.

@Martijn: Thank you for pointing me to the shell script.

Stefan

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Am 25.07.2011 21:05, schrieb lst_hoe02(a)kwsoft.de:

Zitat von Stefan-Michael Guenther <s.guenther(a)in-put.de>:

Hi,

we all know, that a manual backup by using the Backup manager isn't the
most reliable backup solution.

Is it possible to backup all necessary files and directories with a
script called by a cronjob?

The Backup manager is able to do scheduled backups. It needs a SMB share
to do so, but that should be no problem as it is recommended to store
the backup on an other machine anyway, no? For how to use the backup
manager have a look at
http://www.djigzo.com/documents/administration-guide.pdf in chapter 20.

Regards

Andreas

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click on Admin in the main menu, then on "Backup manager" and on the
backup page click on the "backup config" link (see attached screenshot).

Kind regards,

Martijn Brinkers

backup-config.png

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On 07/26/2011 08:36 AM, Stefan-Michael Guenther wrote:

Hi,

sorry, I did not recognize the link "backup config".

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