From 335afa8d1842e4ebe03a4e87884a9420086948a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: DecaTec Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 09:14:34 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] Added some general information --- README.md | 18 +++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 75eae70..5d6624f 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -4,12 +4,6 @@ This repository contains two bash scripts for backup/restore of [Nextcloud](http It is based on a Nextcloud installation using nginx and MariaDB (see the (German) tutorial [Nextcloud auf Ubuntu Server mit nginx, MariaDB, PHP, Let’s Encrypt, Redis und Fail2ban](https://decatec.de/home-server/nextcloud-auf-ubuntu-server-mit-nginx-mariadb-php-lets-encrypt-redis-und-fail2ban/)). -## Usage - -**Important** - -After cloning or downloading the repository, you'll have to edit the scripts so that they represent your current Nextcloud installation (directories, users, etc.) - ## General information For a complete backup of any Nextcloud instance, you'll have to backup three items: @@ -19,11 +13,17 @@ For a complete backup of any Nextcloud instance, you'll have to backup three ite The scripts take care of these three items to backup automatically. -### Backup +**Important:** + +- After cloning or downloading the repository, you'll have to edit the scripts so that they represent your current Nextcloud installation (directories, users, etc.). +- The scripts assume that Nextcloud's data directory is *not* a subdirectory of the Nextcloud installation (file directory). The general recommendation is that the data directory should not be located somewhere in the web folder of your webserver (usually */var/www/*), but in a different folder (e.g. */var/nextcloud_data*). +- If you do not want to save the database password in the scripts, remove the variable *dbPassword* and call *mysql* with the *-p* parameter (without password). When calling the scripts manually, you'll be asked for the database password. + +## Backup In oder to create a backup, simplly call the script *NextcloudBackup.sh* on your Nextcloud machine. This will create a direcotry with the current time stamp in your main backup directory (you already edited the script so that it fits yout Nextcloud installation, haven't you): As an example, this would be */mnt/Share/NextcloudBackups/20170910_132703*. -### Restore +## Restore -For restore, just call *NextcloudRestore.sh*. This script expects one parameter which is the name of the backup to be restored. In our example, this would be *20170910_132703* (the time stamp of the backup created before). So the full command for a restore would be *./NextcloudRestore.sh 20170910_132703*. \ No newline at end of file +For restore, just call *NextcloudRestore.sh*. This script expects one parameter which is the name of the backup to be restored. In our example, this would be *20170910_132703* (the time stamp of the backup created before). So the full command for a restore would be *./NextcloudRestore.sh 20170910_132703*. -- 2.34.1