butterbackup

A backup solution. A server at your office behind your firewall that pulls data from public servers and saves snapshots.

On your backup server

Create a partition from free space

cfdisk /dev/sda
apt-get install parted
partprobe
apt-get install btrfs-tools
mkfs.btrfs /dev/sdaX
mkdir /backups
mount /dev/sdaX /backups

Mount the partition on boot

Find the UUID of the new partition blkid

Edit /etc/fstab UUID=7ef18851-xxxx-yyyy-zzzz-53f7b88b6119 /backups btrfs defaults 0 0

Setup butterbackup

apt-get install git
cd /opt
git clone https://forja.laloka.org/buttle/ButterBackup.git

Instalar python3 en un entorno virtual

apt-get install virtualenv
cd /opt/butterbackup
virtualenv venv --python=python3

Setup users

butterbackup runs on the backserver as root. root connects to the public server as user keeper.

We create a user on the public server and copy root@backup_server public key to keeper@public_server authorized_keys

On the public_server

Create dummy user on public server

adduser --disabled-password keeper
mkdir /home/keeper/.ssh
touch /home/keeper/.ssh/authorized_keys

Create root@backup_server ssh keys on the backup_server

ssh-keygen -t ecdsa -b 521

And add the new public key to keeper@public_server /home/keeper/.ssh/authorized_keys

Test to see if you can open a session on the public_server

ssh keeper@public_server

Permissions

Perhaps keeper@public_server does not have permission to read everything you want to backup.

Let's say you want to backup /var/www on the public server. You can add the keeper to the www-data group

Create a config file

cd /opt/butterbackup/config
cp example.com my_server_domain_name.com

Edit the new config file.

Make the first copy

You can run butterbackup manually

/opt/butterbackup/venv/bin/python3 /opt/butterbackup/butterbackup.py my_server_domain_name.com

Add an entry to root's crontab

crontab -e

You cronjobs might look like this. Where each server has a corresponding /opt/butterbackup/config file

0  2 * * * /opt/butterbackup/venv/bin/python3 /opt/butterbackup/butterbackup.py server_1.com
0  3 * * * /opt/butterbackup/venv/bin/python3 /opt/butterbackup/butterbackup.py server_2.com
15 3 * * * /opt/butterbackup/venv/bin/python3 /opt/butterbackup/butterbackup.py server_3.com
45 3 * * 1,4 /opt/butterbackup/venv/bin/python3 /opt/butterbackup/butterbackup.py server_4.com

Inspect backups

cd /backups/my_server_domain_name.com