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Prepare Google Drive for Koha backup
pCloud for Koha backup
pCloud is a cloud storage service that offers a secure and convenient way to store, share, and access your files from anywhere. It works like Dropbox cloud storage. Dropbox gives only 2 GB of free storage only. pCloud provides a variety of pricing plans, starting with a free plan that gives you 10 GB of storage. Koha users can make use pCloud for backup storage. Schedule the backup and point to the PCloud storage is very convenient.
Backup with auto delete old files
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Auto-deletion of old backup files helps save cloud space. |
Here is a shell script to schedule the backup with a time stamp. It keeps three days of backup and deletes previous files to save space. This method is convenient for working with cloud storage with limited space (e.g. Dropbox).
Follow the instructions below to schedule the backup.
Download the shell script
Copy the shell script to the home folder. Open the shell script and make changes to the Koha database, username, password and location of the backup. The timestamp of the database also appears on the backup file name. Give the number of days the backup keeps.
Move the shell script to /usr/local/bin
sudo cp backup.sh /usr/local/bin
Give the necessary permission to the shell script,
cd /usr/local/bin
sudo chmod +x backup.sh
sudo chown "$USER:$USER" backup.sh
sudo chmod 700 backup.sh
Create the cron job entry for the backup. Apply the following command on the terminal.
export EDITOR=mousepad
crontab -e
Copy the lines below to the bottom part of the crontab file.
#Koha backup
10 20 * * * /usr/local/bin/backup.sh
Change the timing of the backup. Here, backup takes at 8:10 PM.
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