Borg backups » History » Version 3
Jamila Khan, 05/11/2017 01:43 PM
adding package install
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| 3 | This is documentation and scripts for using Borg backups with backupninja. This relies heavily on the work of "Jon Goldberg":https://github.com/PalanteJon, "Benzhaomin":https://0xacab.org/Benzhaomin, and "Guillaume Subiron":https://github.com/maethor. |
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| 5 | 3 | Jamila Khan | Install necessary packages, currently the best way to do that is by using jessie-backports. |
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| 7 | <pre> |
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| 8 | aptitude -t jessie-backports install python3-msgpack borgbackup |
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| 9 | </pre> |
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| 12 | 1 | Jamila Khan | The files borg, borglocal, borg.helper, and borglocal.helper should be placed in /usr/share/backupninja, permissions 644, owned by root:root. |
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| 14 | <pre> |
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| 15 | cd /usr/share/backupninja |
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| 16 | wget https://hq.palantetech.coop/attachments/download/7133/borg && wget https://hq.palantetech.coop/attachments/download/7135/borg.helper && wget https://hq.palantetech.coop/attachments/download/7136/borglocal && wget https://hq.palantetech.coop/attachments/download/7134/borglocal.helper |
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| 17 | chown root:root borg* && chmod 644 borg* |
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| 18 | </pre> |
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| 21 | 1 | Jamila Khan | The files 70-76 are example backupninja jobs, which would go in /etc/backup.d, permissions 600, owned by root:root. |
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| 23 | 2 | Jamila Khan | <pre> |
| 24 | cd /etc/backup.d |
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| 25 | wget https://hq.palantetech.coop/attachments/download/7130/70-local.borglocal |
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| 26 | wget https://hq.palantetech.coop/attachments/download/7132/71-mfpl.borg |
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| 27 | wget https://hq.palantetech.coop/attachments/download/7138/75-borglocalbackupcheck.sh |
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| 28 | wget https://hq.palantetech.coop/attachments/download/7137/76-borgbackupcheck.sh |
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| 29 | chown root:root 7* && chmod 600 7* |
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| 30 | </pre> |
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| 32 | 1 | Jamila Khan | Job 70 is for backing up to a usb drive, which will be mounted at the beginning of every job and unmounted at the end. |
| 33 | 2 | Jamila Khan | Necessary variables to change: device uuid, filesystem type, included and excluded files, directory to mount the usb drive to, passphrase |
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| 35 | 1 | Jamila Khan | Job 71 is for backing up to either a local folder or a folder accessible by ssh on a remote host. |
| 36 | 2 | Jamila Khan | Necessary variables to change: included and excluded files, directory to put the backups in, host, ssh user, passphrase |
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| 38 | Jobs 75 and 76 are for checking the viability of the job 70 and 71 backups respectively, and require coping over the variables from those jobs. |
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| 40 | Please change the passphrase variable in these jobs to something other than "PASSPHRASE", or leave it empty, which will turn off encryption. |
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| 43 | documentation: |
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| 44 | https://0xacab.org/riseuplabs/backupninja/merge_requests/1 |
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| 45 | https://labs.riseup.net/code/projects/backupninja |
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| 46 | https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ |