What is the name of the domain?
What is the issue you’re encountering
just wanted to share and help =) please share with contractors !!
What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?
well, the cli interface doesn’t have backup feature =(
What are the steps to reproduce the issue?
if you’re not into unix, please ignore
read this bash script, if you don’t like bash scripts, nevermind
if you use crontab, you can add this script to your cron tab, its best in nfs/ldap scenarios
#!/bin/bash
echo “hi $1”
echo “welcome to $0”
echo “setting variables”
TIME=date +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S
echo “TIME $TIME”
DIR_TO_BACKUP=~/.nvm/
echo “DIR_TO_BACKUP $DIR_TO_BACKUP”
BACKUP_FILE_PREFIX=~
echo “BACKUP_FILE_PREFIX $BACKUP_FILE_PREFIX”
BACKUP_DIR=$BACKUP_FILE_PREFIX/backup/cloudflare/$TIME
echo “BACKUP_DIR $BACKUP_DIR”
BACKUP_FILENAME=$BACKUP_FILE_PREFIX/$TIME.tar
echo “BACKUP_FILENAME $BACKUP_FILENAME”
BACKUP_FILENAME_GZ=$BACKUP_FILE_PREFIX/$TIME.tar.gz
echo “BACKUP_FILENAME_GZ $BACKUP_FILENAME_GZ”
echo “variables set”
echo “starting backup”
echo “please wait until script denotes that backup is done”
mkdir $BACKUP_DIR
echo “made $BACKUP_DIR”
echo “creating tarball in $BACKUP_DIR for directory $DIR_TO_BACKUP”
echo “dont worry about the error from tar !”
echo “the error regards preserving filename structure!”
echo “saving tarball to $BACKUP_FILENAME”
tar cf $BACKUP_FILENAME $DIR_TO_BACKUP
echo “tarball done”
echo “copy tarball ($TIME.tar) to $BACKUP_DIR”
cp -r $BACKUP_FILENAME $BACKUP_DIR
echo “copying done”
echo “gzip of $BACKUP_FILENAME started”
gzip $BACKUP_FILENAME
echo “gzip done”
echo “copying $BACKUP_FILENAME but gzipped to $BACKUP_DIR”
cp $BACKUP_FILENAME_GZ $BACKUP_DIR
echo “done at $TIME
echo “be sure to delete/copy/archive/etc $BACKUP_FILENAME and $BACKUP_FILENAME_GZ !!””
