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

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)