db-backup handles database backups. When executed, it performs a full database snapshot backup, timestamps it, and ships it off to an off-site FTP server.
It also manages how many backup snapshots would you like to keep by deleting the oldest backups on the FTP server.
It keeps logging information in /var/log/db-backup and on /dev/stdout
for each execution.
Configure it by specifying the following BASH variables in the file
located at /etc/db-backup:
This should take a full snapshot backup of the database and write it to STDOUT. db-backup will handle compressing that snapshot data inernally, so the command should not perform any extra compression on the snapshot data.
The CIDR address of the FTP server
The username for accessing the FTP server
The passphrase for accessing the FTP server
The path prefix on the FTP server in which to store the database backups
The number of newest backup snapshots to keep on the FTP host