Time for action – enhancing the backup script

1. Open the backupCacti.sh script and add the following line between the FILENAME and BACKUPDIR line:

   TGZFILENAME="cacti_files_$DATE.tgz";
   

2. Add the following two lines at the end of the script:

   # Create the Cacti files backup
   tar -czpf $BACKUPDIR$TGZFILENAME ./etc/cron.d/cacti ./etc/php.ini ./etc/php.d ./etc/httpd/conf ./etc/httpd/conf.d ./etc/spine.conf ./usr/local/spine ./var/www/html/cacti ./var/www/html/cacti-0.8.7g
   

3. Remove any earlier backups from the backup directory:

   rm /backup/cacti_*
   

4. Start the backup script:

   /bin/bash /backup/backupCacti.sh
   

5. Verify whether the database and the files backup have been created:

   ls –l /backup
   

What just happened?

You have enhanced the script to also create a backup of the Cacti files. Now you can issue this single command to create a complete backup. The extra dot you have added to the paths of the tar command will allow you to extract that tar file in a subdirectory without accidently overwriting an existing...