Difference between revisions of "Cedeus DB backups"

Revision as of 18:26, 2 December 2014

To get notified about the backups via email, a/the shell script may send emails via "mailx" - i.e Nail. => see http://klenwell.com/press/2009/03/ubuntu-email-with-nail/

Btw. postfix may work as well

=> ToDo: Install mail program

create a shell script that contains the pgdump instructions - see /home/ssteinig/pgdbbackup.sh on CedeusDB
test if script or script execution actually works. A simple script for testing may perhaps be this (/home/ssteinig/touchy.sh)

#!/bin/bash 
touch /home/ssteinig/ftw.text

create a cron-tab entry for user ssteinig with "crontab -e"
then add entry such as "00 01 * * * sh /home/ssteinig/pgdbbackup.sh" to run the script daily at 1:00 am
=> when using the user "postgres" to do the db dump
- check if postgres user has a password assigned already (use ALTER... to do so: http://wiki.geosteiniger.cl/mediawiki-1.22.7/index.php/Setting_up_geonode#Some_PostgreSQL_commands )
- create a .pgpass file to provide the password: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Pgpass
check also if the cron is running: "sudo service cron status" otherwise start it...
to see what the cron tab contains use "crontab -l"

=> ToDo: check how to open an ftp connection and place the file there... or retrieve it using "wget"?

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 To get notified about the backups via email, a/the shell script may send emails via "mailx" - i.e Nail.
 => see http://klenwell.com/press/2009/03/ubuntu-email-with-nail/
+Btw. postfix may work as well
 => '''ToDo''': Install mail program