🗄️ backup.sh

Backup MySQL & MongoDB | Bash Shell Script | Email Reports

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Prerequisites

• SSH Key Access to Remote Server. How to setup?
• Sendgrid Account (Optional) -- Incase if you want to turn on reports emailing.

Setup Instructions

Setting up SSH Key

Make sure to follow the below steps while creating SSH Keys and using them. Login with username specified in Github Secrets. Generate a RSA Key-Pair:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "your_email@example.com"

Add newly generated key into Authorized keys.

cd .ssh && touch authorized_keys && chmod 600 authorized_keys
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Copy the Private Key file content and save it or download the Private Key file

clip < ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Test a Connection by supplying downloaded private key

ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa user@newserver

Update the PKEY variable in backup.sh for private key location

PKEY=id_rsa
to
PKEY=/location_of_your_privatekey

Create a conf file using .example.conf & Fill up the conf file.

Note: Filename should start with . && the positions of variable should stay same refer backup.sh file

mv .example.conf .prod_server.conf

Update the SENDGRID_API_KEY if you want to turn on backup reports emailing. (Optional)

SENDGRID_API_KEY=""
to
SENDGRID_API_KEY="your-sendgrid-api-key"

Test a Backup Script

sh backup.sh

If all goes well, set it up on cron.

Set it up on Cron

0 0 * * * cd /to/location/of/script && sh backup.sh | tee reports.txt # Every Night at Midnight

Cron will do remaining..

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That's all Folks !! Enjoy.