Backup Commander

Backup Commander is a simple web-based backup platform powered by PHP offering:

• Easy installation (used to be anyway)
• Intuitive UI
• Incremental file backup
• Backup scheduling

Installation

Backup Commander requires a running webserver such as apache using php

1. Grab the latest version from the repository: git clone http://pearcey.net:8080/johnpearcey/backup-commander
2. Navigate to the install folder cd install
3. Run the install bash script. Note that you must specify the web user which apache is serving as, e.g. www-root or http etc..

The install.sh script will automatically pull the latest version so it can be run at any time to update the system.

The first time install.sh is run, it will require the presence of conf.php. You will need to fill this in with specific information relative to your setup. An template file is supplied as conf-sample.php.

The last thing which needs to be done is to edit the sudoers file using visudo. The following line should be added:

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

This line shoul be towards the end of the file, e.g. AFTER the %sudo line if you have one.

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

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
  ├─ data    All data files. This directory is NOT served
  ├─ js      All JS files
  ├─ shd    Common files shared throughout the project
  ├─ svc    Files dedicated for use by the service only
  └─ lib    Library files from external projects
└─install    Install and update scripts