Rclone Backup

Bash script for automatic website data backup with rclone and Backblaze B2. The script uploads a zip file of the complete /var/www directory with the zip filename consisting of the date and time it was uploaded.

Setup

1. Create a B2 bucket
2. Enter your home directory $ cd ~
3. Clone the repository with $ git clone https://github.com/wouterbles/rclone-backup.git
4. Run the setup script which downloads and installs rclone with $ rclone-backup/setup.sh
5. The rclone config processs will be opened automatically, select B2 and insert the API keys
6. Set the bucket name in a .env file with B2_BUCKET_NAME=bucket-name-here, file should be located in the rclone-backup folder
7. Add a cron job for script.sh with $ crontab -e

Example cron job: @weekly ~/rclone-backup/script.sh, for weekly backups and in the case that the repository was cloned to the home directory.

To Do

• Add MySQL and other database support
• Automatically setup cron job
• Let the user determine their own install location, currently limited to home directory
• Add backup retention time specified by the user
• Check compatibility with other remotes (Google Drive, Amazon S3, OneDrive...)