Backups

Remote backup of user directory and MySQL database that deletes the backup from 4 weeks ago

serverLocation="example.com";
syncLocation="/media/StorageDrive/example.com.sync/";
saveLocation="/media/StorageDrive/example.com.backups/";
rsync -a root@$serverLocation:/home/ $syncLocation/home/;
ssh root@$serverLocation -t "mysqldump --all-databases" > $syncLocation/mysql.sql;
cd $syncLocation;
tar -cvzf $saveLocation/$(date +%y-%m-%d).tar . ;
rm -f /home/user123/mail-backup-$(date --date="4 weeks ago" +%y-%m-%d).tar;

Local cron backup command for one email account that deletes backups after two weeks

tar -cvf /home/user123/mail-backup-$(date +%F).tar /home/user123/mail/example.com/info/; rm -f /home/user123/mail-backup-$(date  --date="2 weeks ago" +%F).tar; > /dev/null

Backup commands

safe_pkgacct
safe_restorepkg
mv_backup