Installing and Configuring fsbackup

For the test, I install fsbackup in Ubuntu Server and Debian.

Switch to the root user:
su

Download the archive from fsbackup and unpack it:

cd /tmp
wget https://www.opennet.ru/dev/fsbackup/src/fsbackup-1.2pl2.tar.gz
tar -xvzf ./fsbackup-1.2pl2.tar.gz

Run the installation script:

cd fsbackup-1.2pl2
./install.pl

fsbackup will be installed in the default directory /usr/local/fsbackup.

After that, you need to edit the file create_backup.sh:

nano /usr/local/fsbackup/create_backup.sh

In which to specify the configuration file or to leave existing and edit them:

nano /usr/local/fsbackup/cfg_example
nano /usr/local/fsbackup/cfg_example_local
nano /usr/local/fsbackup/cfg_example_users
nano /usr/local/fsbackup/cfg_example_root

If necessary, also edit the scripts in the /usr/local/fsbackup/scripts directory.

Let’s create a directory in which the backup copies will be stored:

mkdir /usr/local/fsbackup/archive

Open the text editor in the scheduler:

nano /etc/crontab

And add a line, thereby scheduling the execution of the script and the creation of backups every day at 4:15 am:

15 4 * * * /usr/local/fsbackup/create_backup.sh| mail -s"`uname -n` backup report" root

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