Script to move user backup to their dir

[Diego.Vieira]

I have been thinking about allowing customers to download their own backup, so I deicide to wrote this.
It's very simple as I'm not very skilled with shell programming, but does the job.

Create file /move-backup-to-users.sh, paste the code below and chmod to 700:

#!/bin/sh
BACKUPDIR=/home/backup #without trailing slash

#don't change if you don't know what it is for
BACKUPTYPES=$(ls $BACKUPDIR/cpbackup/)
USERS=$(ls /home/) #users
DATE=$(date)

for u in $USERS
do
	for t in $BACKUPTYPES
	do
		if [ -f $BACKUPDIR/cpbackup/$t/$u.tar.gz ];
		then
			mv -f $BACKUPDIR/cpbackup/$t/$u.tar.gz /home/$u/backup-$t-$u.tar.gz
			chown $u:$u /home/$u/backup-$t-$u.tar.gz
		
			if [ -f /home/$u/backup_email.txt ];
			then
				source /home/$u/backup_email.txt
				/bin/mail -s "$SUBJECT" "$EMAIL" < $MESSAGE
				rm $MESSAGE
			fi
		
			# debug
			echo $BACKUPDIR/cpbackup/$t/$u.tar.gz /home/$u/backup-$t-$u.tar.gz$n
			echo chown $u:$u /home/$u/backup-$t-$u.tar.gz
			echo $n
			# debug
		else
			echo "File not found $BACKUPDIR/cpbackup/$t/$u.tar.gz"
		fi
	done
done

Create the file /scripts/postcpbackup (if doesn't exists) and paste this line:

/move-backup-to-users.sh

Create the file /scripts/precpbackup (if doesn't exists) and paste this:

#!/bin/sh
#don't change if you don't know what it is for
USERS=$(ls /home/) #users
BACKUPTYPES=daily weekly monthly

for u in $USERS
do
	for t in $BACKUPTYPES
	do
		if [ -f $BACKUPDIR/cpbackup/$t/$u.tar.gz ];
		then
			rm /home/$u/backup-$t-$u.tar.gz
		fi
	done
done

Save this as txt to /home/username/backup_email.txt if you want the user to be emailed
Since I have customer from three different countries, I have translated this to other languages as well

SUBJECT="New Backup Available"
EMAIL="user@email.com"
MESSAGE="/tmp/emailmessage.txt"
echo "$DATE" >> $MESSAGE
echo "This is an email to tell you that a new backup file is available: /home/$u/backup-$t-$u.tar.gz" >> $MESSAGE
echo "We recommend that you download this backup from time to time" >> $MESSAGE
echo "If the backup is too large, try to download old things or asks us to exclude large directories" >> $MESSAGE
echo "or directories that you don't need to backup" >> $MESSAGE

Go to WHM -> Backup -> Configure Backup -> Check: Execute Pre/Post Backup Script
/scripts/precpbackup
/scripts/postcpbackup

Test by running /./move-backup-to-users.sh and /scripts/cpbackup


Feel free to modify, share, improve.

[WhiteDog]

Hello Diego,

This is a nice addition.

I'm sure you are aware that users can already download their "daily", "weekly" and "monthly" backups from within cPanel? But perhaps you wanted to offer this "extra" so they can download via FTP and things?

Personally, this kind of "scripts" should be integrated within cPanel itself so we as admins can allow the end-user to turn this on/of for his account