#!/bin/bash set -eux cd "$(dirname "$0")" # TODO: We are using extra space on the remote VPS at the moment for the duplicity backup files. # we could eliminate that and simply save duplicity backups to the management machine running the script # this could be done by using a local path and mounting it on the remote VPS. # maybe something like https://superuser.com/questions/616182/how-to-mount-local-directory-to-remote-like-sshfs # step 1: run duplicity on the remote system to backup all files to the remote system. ssh "$WWW_FQDN" sudo PASSPHRASE="$DUPLICITY_BACKUP_PASSPHRASE" duplicity --allow-source-mismatch --exclude "$REMOTE_HOME/backups" "$REMOTE_HOME" "file://$REMOTE_BACKUP_PATH" ssh "$WWW_FQDN" sudo chown -R ubuntu:ubuntu "$REMOTE_BACKUP_PATH" # now let's pull down the latest files from the backup directory. # create a temp directory to serve as the mountpoint for the remote machine backups directory sshfs "$WWW_FQDN:$REMOTE_BACKUP_PATH" "$SSHFS_PATH" # rsync the files from the remote server to our local backup path. rsync -av "$SSHFS_PATH/" "$LOCAL_BACKUP_PATH/" # step 4: unmount the SSHFS filesystem and cleanup. umount "$SSHFS_PATH" rm -rf "$SSHFS_PATH"