I now run two webservers in different locations. The basic platform is Apache with Joomla on top for a CMS and a splattering of wordpress and roundcube for good measure. I needed to do a couple of things though – backup the databases to another location and ensure static image content was mirrored between the two sites. I didn’t want to necessarily keep the MySQL servers in sync so much as have a backup of the CMS content. I intend to import old databse copies as and when I need to. Here is how I did it:<\/p>\n
(replace theuser<\/span> with the real username, thepassword<\/span> with the real password and x.x.x.x<\/span> with your real destination FTP server).<\/p>\n lftp -c ‘open -e “mirror \/otndocs\/images\/ \/var\/www\/otndocs\/images\/” -d -u theuser<\/span>, thepassword<\/span> X.X.X.X<\/span>‘<\/span><\/p>\n lftp -c ‘open -e “mirror \/otndocs\/templates\/rhuk_milkyway\/ \/var\/www\/otndocs\/ templates\/rhuk_milkyway\/” -d -u theuser,<\/span>thepassword X.X.X.X<\/span>‘<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The above script uses lftp to mirror two directories. The different paths reflect how the target FTP server holds content in different folders to the source webserver. I have to be picky wth what I transfer because the target server is a WindowsXP machine and the source runs Ubuntu Server. If both machines matched paths and underlying O\/S, you should pretty much be able to just dump the whole server over. That is a bit risky as you will carry any malicious code over as well. I stuck with just images for the moment, though the second line shows how to copy a specific template as well.<\/p>\n Here is the script to backup the mySQL database. It dumps, gzips and uploads the files one by one in a target folder with today’s date on it. I’ve added my crontab entry at the end to show how you could, like me schedule it to run at 3am for example. Again, replace the bits in blue<\/span> with your usernames etc.<\/p>\n type crontab-e to add your scripts to the schedule:<\/p>\n#!\/bin\/sh\r\n\r\n# List all of the MySQL databases that you want to backup in here,\r\n\r\n# each separated by a space\r\n\r\ndatabases=\"mysql otndata wordpress<\/span>\"\r\n# Directory where you want the backup files to be placed\r\n\r\nbackupdir=\/backup\r\n\r\n# MySQL dump command, use the full path name here\r\nmysqldumpcmd=\/usr\/bin\/mysqldump\r\n\r\n# MySQL Username and password\r\nuserpassword=\" --user=themysqluser<\/span> --password=themysqlpassword<\/span>\"\r\n\r\n# MySQL dump options\r\ndumpoptions=\" --quick --add-drop-table --add-locks --extended-insert --lock-tables\"\r\n\r\n# Unix Commands\r\ngzip=\/bin\/gzip\r\nuuencode=\/usr\/bin\/uuencode\r\nmail=\/bin\/mail\r\n\r\n# Send Backup? Would you like the backup emailed to you?\r\n# Set to \"y\" if you do\r\nsendbackup=\"n\"\r\nsubject=\"Your MySQL Backup\"\r\nmailto=\"person@mailbox.org<\/span>\"\r\n\r\n# Create our backup directory if not already there\r\nmkdir -p ${backupdir}\r\nif [ ! -d ${backupdir} ]\r\nthen\r\necho \"Not a directory: ${backupdir}\"\r\nexit 1\r\nfi\r\n\r\n# Dump all of our databases\r\necho \"Dumping MySQL Databases\"\r\nfor database in $databases\r\ndo\r\n$mysqldumpcmd $userpassword $dumpoptions $database > ${backupdir}\/${database}.sql\r\ndone\r\n\r\n# Compress all of our backup files\r\necho \"Compressing Dump Files\"\r\nfor database in $databases\r\ndo\r\nrm -f ${backupdir}\/${database}.sql.gz\r\n$gzip ${backupdir}\/${database}.sql\r\ndone\r\n\r\n# Send the backups via email\r\nif [ $sendbackup = \"y\" ]\r\nthen\r\nfor database in $databases\r\ndo\r\n$uuencode ${backupdir}\/${database}.sql.gz > ${backupdir}\/${database}.sql.gz.uu\r\n$mail -s \"$subject : $database\" $mailto < ${backupdir}\/${database}.sql.gz.uu\r\ndone\r\nfi\r\n\r\n# And we're done\r\nls -l ${backupdir}\r\necho \"Dump Complete!\"\r\n\r\nHOST='X.X.X.X<\/span>'\r\nUSER='theuser<\/span>'\r\nPASSWD='thepassword<\/span>'\r\nDATE=$(date +%d%m%y)\r\n\r\n#Our local directory containing files to FTP\r\ncd ${backupdir}\r\n\r\n# Process each file in directory, ftping each one\r\n\r\nfor filename in ${backupdir}\/*; do\r\nfn=$(basename \"$filename\")\r\necho \"$fn\"\r\n\r\nftp -n -v <<-EOF\r\nopen ${HOST}\r\nuser ${USER} ${PASSWD}\r\ncd \/\r\nmkdir $DATE\r\ncd $DATE\r\npwd\r\nput $fn\r\nbye\r\nEOF\r\necho \"FTP upload attempt for $fn complete\"\r\n\r\ndone\r\n\r\necho \"FTP complete!\"\r\nexit<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n0 3 * * * \/home\/simkin\/backup-databases<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"