Publisher review:DeltaBackup script takes backup from multiple servers through SCP/SSH into your backup server. Have you searched around the net for a script that would take backup of certain directoies on your server, and feel that setting up certificates/keys/known hosts on all servers is complicated?
Maybe you have wanted to do a simple file transfer through SSH, but you need to type a password for each server, so you can't run it on a schedule or cron job.
This perl script takes backup from multiple servers through SCP/SSH into your backup server. On the servers you want to backup, you only need to create a backup user.
You do not need to install any certificates and the normal key exchange process. The script uses Expect to pass on the password and automatically log into the server you want to backup.
Features
- Based on an .xml file, a complete directory is transfered with all files from you server to the backup server.
- Unlimited numbers of sites can be setup through a very simple plain text file (xml).
- Uses SSH protocol and SCP (Secure Copy) to transfer the filles.
- Progress report.
- Custom SSH ports.
- Email alerts on completed backup.
- Custom directory for saving backups (from a configuration file).
- Saves 7 days of backup before it starts overwriting the old backup.
- You can control how many days to run based on a cron job (from 0 to 7 days rotation).
Security:
The data is transfered through SSH just like a normal secure user would. So this should be pretty safe. The most important files is the data.xml, where your backup users password would be.
You should not use this on a shared server where other people have access to read other peoples files. The best usage for this script is usage of it from a remote server that can not be logged into and only allows outgoing connections. Requirements: · Perl · Perl module: XML::Simple · Perl module: Net:SMTP · Perl module: Expect · SCP (Secure Copy client) on the backup server. · SSH access on all servers (this is also for each of the client computers)
DeltaBackup is a Perl script for Server Management scripts design by DeltaScripts.
It runs on following operating system: Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris.
takes backup from multiple servers through SCP/SSH into your backup server.
Operating system:Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris
DeltaBackup script details 
