[Script] Give Resellers access to their client's backups

**stdout** · 11-26-2008 07:53 PM

Treat your resellers and give them access to their end-user backups!

Not only will it give them full control over their client's backups, it will also allow them to restore individual files - giving them the ability to more accurately assist their own clients on simply restoration requests.

The script pulls the backup type (incremental or non-incremental) and also pulls the backup destination. If you are using cPanel's backup system and backing up to secondary - this is the script for you.

Below is a sample output of the script in action. You can ofcourse set this script to run on a weekly basis to update symlinks.

If you're running this as a cronjob, be sure to suppress the output with 1> /dev/null
ie. ~/root/symbackups.pl 1> /dev/null

root@pluto [~]# ./symbackups.pl
cpbackup set to incremental
cpbackup dir set to /backup/cpbackup

processing daily backups
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processing weekly backups
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/backup/cpbackup/monthly does not exist!

cPanel backup symlink procedure completed in: 373 seconds

Here is the script. Simply Copy/Paste, Chmod and Execute.

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

chdir("/var/cpanel/users");

my @backups = ("daily","weekly","monthly");
my $backupdir = `grep BACKUPDIR /etc/cpbackup.conf`;
my $backuptype = `grep BACKUPINC /etc/cpbackup.conf`;

chomp($backuptype);
chomp($backupdir);

(undef,$backupdir) = split(/ /,$backupdir);
(undef,$backuptype) = split(/ /,$backuptype);

my $start_time = time();

if ($backuptype eq "yes") { print "cpbackup set to incremental\n"; $backupinc = 1; }
elsif ($backuptype eq "no") { print "cpbackup set to non-incremental\n"; $backupinc = 0; }
else { print "cpbackup not configured!\n"; exit; }

$backupdir .= "/cpbackup";
print "cpbackup dir set to $backupdir\n";

foreach $backupint (@backups) {
 if (-d "$backupdir/$backupint") { &symbackups(); }
 else { print "$backupdir/$backupint does not exist!\n"; }
}

my $end_time = time();
my $runtime = $end_time - $start_time;

print "\ncPanel backup symlink procedure completed in: $runtime seconds\n";

exit;

sub symbackups() {
 print "\nprocessing $backupint backups\n";

 open(LIST,"ls -1 |");
  foreach $username (<LIST>) {
   chomp($username);
   $userowner = `grep OWNER $username | cut -d= -f2`;
   chomp($userowner);
   print ".";
   system("mkdir /home/$userowner/backups 2> /dev/null");
   system("chown $userowner:$userowner /home/$userowner/backups 2> /dev/null");
   system("mkdir /home/$userowner/backups/$backupint 2> /dev/null");
   system("chown $userowner:$userowner /home/$userowner/backups/$backupint 2> /dev/null");

   if ($backupinc == 1) {
    system("ln -s /backup/cpbackup/$backupint/$username /home/$userowner/backups/$backupint/$username 2> /dev/null");
    system("chown -R :$userowner /backup/cpbackup/$backupint/$username 2> /dev/null");
    system("chmod -R 775 /backup/cpbackup/$backupint/$username 2> /dev/null");
   }
   else {
    system("ln -s /backup/cpbackup/$backupint/$username.tar.gz /home/$userowner/backups/$backupint/$username.tar.gz 2> /dev/null");
    system("chown :$userowner /backup/cpbackup/$backupint/$username.tar.gz 2> /dev/null");
    system("chmod 775 /backup/cpbackup/$backupint/$username.tar.gz 2> /dev/null");
   }
  close(LIST);
 }
}

Spot a bug? Let me know! Thanks. I hope this script works out as well