tapu-backups

A tapu-backups host is meant to store backups of b2 hosts.

Install

Designed as the foundational script, ./install.sh automates the setup process for essential Ubuntu server services.

You'll find a breakdown of the tasks it performs below.

Prerequisite

This script must be executed with root privileges.

Script steps

1. Checks that script run on correct directory and checks required args
2. Creates .env file from .env.example and add/update BACKUPS_DISK* with command given args
3. Does base server configurations and installs base services that are needed (vnstat, php-cli)
4. Mounts and configures backup disk
5. Installs cron and configure it, it'll start ./cron.php every minute
6. Installs vsftpd server
7. Installs API service that will listen for requests on port :8000

Usage

./install.sh --backup_disk /dev/sdb --backup_disk_mount /mnt/backups

Notes:

• You must execute the installation script with root privileges.
• The backup_disk arguments are needed to mount and configure the disk that will be used to store the backups.

Cron

The ./cron.php is executed evey minute, it executes a series of jobs. It calls a controller depending on its configured crontab.

Jobs:

• release-expired-tokens controller is called every 5 minutes, it'll release token that are considered expired based on env variable TOKEN_VALIDITY.