Multi Platform Backup Tool (MPBT)

MPBT is a versatile command line tool, which enables you to backup and restore environments across multiple machines

Features

• Support for operations
  • backup
  • restore
• Support for resources
  • directory
  • database
  • elasticsearch
• Support for resources to be containerized with LXC
• Support for all resource locations to be remote. You can even mix and match.
  • local → local
  • local → remote
  • remote → local
  • remote → remote
• Resilient rsync file transfer between machines (auto-resume after connection loss)

Usage/Examples

java -jar mpbt.jar [OPTIONS...] TARBALL

Backup and restore on local machine

java -jar mpbt.jar --operation backup --directory --dirPath /var/www/html /home/user/backup-target.tar
java -jar mpbt.jar --operation restore --directory --dirPath /var/www/html /home/user/backup-source.tar

Backup remote directory on server01 to another remote location on server02

java -jar mpbt.jar --operation backup --directory --dirPath user@server01.com:/my/remote/server01/directory user@server02.com:/my/remote/server02/backup-target.tar

Backup directory within local LXC container and database within remote LXC container on server01 to remote LXC container on server02

java -jar mpbt.jar --operation backup --directory --database --dirPath lxc%local-container-name:/my/directory/within/lxc --dbHost user@server01.com:lxc%remote-mysql-container:localhost --dbName myDatabase --dbUser myUser --dbPassword myPassword user@server02.com:lxc%remote-container-name:/my/remote/server02/backup-target.tar

Arguments

General
--help	Display help documentation
--debug	Enable debug output
--operation <arg>	The operation to use MPBT with [backup, restore]
Job resources
--directory	Enable backing up/restoring a directory
--database	Enable backing up/restoring a MySQL database
--elasticsearch	Enable backing up/restoring a Elasticsearch instance
Directory specific parameters
--dirPath <arg>	The directory to backup/restore
Database specific parameters
--dbHost <arg>	The database server host
--dbName <arg>	The name of the database
--dbUser <arg>	The name of the database user
--dbPassword <arg>	The password of the database user
Elasticsearch specific parameters
--esHost <arg>	The Elasticsearch master node hostname
--esIndexPrefix <arg>	The Elasticsearch index prefix to backup/restore

Requirements

• Java runtime
• MySQL client (e.g. mariadb-client)
• Prepared SSH key authentication

License

Permitted use under the MIT licence