Backup Commander

Add this line in the sudoers file (use visudo) and it must go AFTER the %sudo line

www-data ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/bin/run-bu-by-id.php *

[!NOTE] A test note

Test by switching user to www-data: su -s /bin/bash www-data cd /var/www/html php bin/run-bu-by-id.php 19 0 where 19 is the backup id and 0/1 is not-test/test
Comment out /inc/secure.php in post_handler.php if the login is not required
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Project directory structure

backup-commander
└─html            All web code. You can create a symlink to this directory for your web-server
  ├─bin            Binary scripts runnable via bash. This directory is NOT served
  ├─css            All CSS files
  ├─img            All image files
  ├─inc            All php files. This directory is NOT served
  └─js              All JS files
└─install    Install and update scripts

Updating the App

To pull down the latest changes from the repo, navigate to you project directory (where the original clone was performed) and then the install folder. In there, run the bash script install.sh

Note that you need to specify the user which your web-server is running as.

This script will pull the latest changes from the repo and perform any additionally required data/file updates

TODO:

create an install script:  -- currently all manually done

First version on Las-server Pre-requesite to push onto pearcey.net Generate a database schema with default login add the sudo entry for www-data (or other webserver user) kick off the schedule runner at the install stage

create the schedule runner in php. simple polling of the DB
get passwords from BD
create a user credential page:
    new user+password
    change own password
    but only if the login is enabled (in post_handler.php)