Hetzner is a cloud provider that offers various services, Paas and Saas and also cloud storage, in the form of storageboxes, in order to configure a backup for a new host
- create a storagebox subaccount to limit the user privileges of the backupped guest only to it’s own files
ssh -l u425518 u425518.your-storagebox.de -p 23 mkdir -p <FOLDER>/.ssh
- create ssh keys for the storage box
ssh-keygen -f ~/.ssh/backup_key
- copy pubkey to remote
ssh -l u425518 u425518.your-storagebox.de -p 23 mkdir -p <FOLDER>/.ssh
scp -P 23 ~/.ssh/backup_key.pub u425518@u425518.your-storagebox.de:<FOLDER>/.ssh/authorized_keys
- setup ssh config
Host storagebox-address
User subuser
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
Port 23
- setup sync script with remote (for example
/usr/local/bin/sync_remote.sh)
#!/bin/bash
DEPS="rsync"
DATASTORES="" # PATHS to folders to sync with remote
REMOTE="" # REMOTE URL to storagebox
NTFY_ENDPOINT="" # NTFY ENDPOINT for notifications
HEALTHCHECKS_ENDPOINT="" # HEALTHCHECKS ENDPOINT for notifications
for datastore in $DATASTORES; do
if rsync -Pavr "$datastore" "$REMOTE:"; then
curl "$HEALTHCHECKS_ENDPOINT"
curl "$NTFY_ENDPOINT" -X POST -d "done sync from $HOSTNAME to $REMOTE of $datastore"
else
curl "$NTFY_ENDPOINT" -X POST -d "BROKEN sync from $HOSTNAME to $REMOTE of $datastore"
fi
done
- then configure cron to run the script as follows
0 10 * * * /usr/local/bin/sync_with_remote.sh >> /var/log/sync_with_remote.log 2>1
