Freescout-Automated-Backup/README.md

Freescout Automated Backup Script

Not Blowing Smoke Limited

www.notblowingsmoke.com

With no simple backup soloution for FreeScout built in or available via a module, this simple bash script will perform a backup of the entire filesystem, take a MySQL dump of the database and then bundle them together into a single tarball datestamped. Then upload to your remote FTP storage and discard the local copies.

Install required packages 💫

Ubuntu/Debian (apt package manager)

   apt update
   apt install pv gzip mysql-client curl

CentOS/RHEL (yum package manager)

   yum update
   yum install pv gzip mysql curl

Fedora (dnf package manager)

    dnf update
    dnf install pv gzip mysql curl

Alpine Linux (apk package manager):

    apk update
    apk add pv gzip mysql-client curl

Setup CRON Job:

crontab -e
# Freescout Backup Script (runs twice daily)
0 */12 * * * /bin/bash /home/[USER]/[DIR]/backup.sh >/dev/null 2>&1