How to perform a custom backup on the My sCool Server?
The My sCool Server has built in support for both internal as well as external media based recovery images and custom backups which give you the peace of mind to safeguard against unforeseen system failures. Being an open system, users are free to load their own custom content or may desire to backup the user data which is not covered under the system restore point feature.
For such scenarios where custom backups are desirable, herein are the steps to achieve the same.
Herein we shall perform a backup of the custom web content folder located at - /var/www/html/mss/custom
Directly boot into the MSS device
Open Terminal
Tip: To open terminal press Ctrl + Alt + T
For performing a custom backup, become super user sudo su -
Enter password of mssadmin when prompted
Execute a command to initialise the backup destination borg init --encryption=none [/backup/folder/path/] For e.g. If the backup destination is /home/mssadmin/custom_content, execute -
borg init --encryption=none /home/mssadmin/custom_content
With no backups currently, the list command will return nothing borg list /home/mssadmin/custom_content
Note: /home/mssadmin/custom_content must have sufficient space
Next, execute the command to create snapshot - borg create --stats --progress --compression lz4 [/backup/folder/path/]::[snapshotname] [backup_source]
For e.g. to create backup of /var/www/html/mss/custom, execute borg create --stats --progress --compression lz4 /home/mssadmin/custom_content::1 /var/www/html/mss/custom
To verify the successful creation of the backup, execute - borg list /home/mssadmin/custom_content
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