Making the backup process simple and automatic

Let's we have two Ubuntu servers:

Server-1: IP: 1.2.3.10 (source server )
                 user account name: user1
                 user account password: user1
                
Server-2: IP: 1.2.3.11 (Destination server)

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On Server-1
1. Install openssh-server. You may install through terminal.
2. configure openssh-server if needed, else leave it to the default configuration.

On Server-2
1.  Install openssh-server and sshpass through the terminal.
2.  Change the current directory to $USER/Desktop/backup
3.  Create the directory "data"
3.  Create a password file "pw.txt" with following content.
"pw.txt" content

user1

 4.  Create a shell script file with the name "backup.sh" with following content.
backup.sh content

sshpass -f pw.txt scp -r user1@1.2.3.10:data/*  /home/server2/backup/data/

5.  Make sure pw.txt and backup.sh files are in the same directory.
6.  Execute following command in the terminal

    bash backup.sh

   This  will copy all the content from user1@1.2.3.10:data/ path on Server-1 to /home/server2/backup/data/ directory on Server-2.

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Now its time to schedule the bash backup.sh command to execute in a specific time interval

Make sure you have gone thorugh crontab manual page or gnome-schedule GUI. You may also go through this page to know more details on crontab and gnome-schedule.

1.  Open terminal
2.  Enter following command

crontab -e

3. If you are executing this command for the first time, it will ask for the choice to open an editor.
4. In the editor add following line at the end of the file.

0,12 * * * * bash /home/server2/backup/backup.sh

5. Save and exit the editor.

You can also use gnome-schedule command to schedule the "backup.sh"


-Thats all