What's this?

PhantomBotUpdate.sh is a bash script to keep PhantomBot instances deployed on linux servers up to date the easy way.

The script will

• check for available updates while keeping track of its own version
• update your bot
• migrate your configuration
• restart the bot

The standard configuration assumes you followed the Linux setup guide

I would suggest using an additional backup utility like Borg for long term backups.

To automatically run this script every day at 10am add
0 10 * * * /home/botuser/PhantomBotUpdate.sh
to your crontab (crontab -e)

Variables

There are 3 variables you can change:

• The absolute path of the folder containing the update script
  scriptPath='/home/botuser'

• Absolute path of your PhantomBot
  botPath="$scriptPath/phantombot"

• Path to the upstream PhantomBot repository
  repoPath="https://api.github.com/repos/PhantomBot/PhantomBot/releases/latest"

Files created by the script

The following files/folders will be created/overwritten by this script:

• version.id File to keep track of the currently installed bot version; inside the defined PhantomBot folder
• bot-backup Backup folder for your previously running version; inside the script folder
• update.log Logfile to keep track of when the script ran, and if there was an update; inside the script folder