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| Backup Script for my Nextcloud | 2022-04-13 |
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Backup creation via interactive script
The script I use to create the Nextcloud backup is the following:
#!/usr/bin/bash
set -e
DATE_STR=`date +"%Y-%m-%d"`
BACKUP_DIR="/backup/nextcloud-backup/$DATE_STR"
sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ maintenance:mode --on
mkdir $BACKUP_DIR
echo "Enter mysql_nextcloud password."
mysqldump --single-transaction -u nextcloud -p nextcloud > "$BACKUP_DIR/nextcloud-sqlbkp".bak
rsync -Aax --info=progress2 /var/www/nextcloud/ "$BACKUP_DIR/nextcloud-dirbkp"
sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ maintenance:mode --off
As one can clearly see, it is an interactive script that I invoke when updating my cloud. It performs the following steps:
- Enabling maintenance mode
- Backing up the database
- Backing up the Nextcloud data
- Disabling maintenance mode
The backups are stored in directories named by their date of creation.
What could be done better?
- Incremental backups to save disk space
- Make the backup completely automated and perform them on a regular time base
- Store the backups not only on a separate drive but on a different computer