Backup script with Pushover notifications. Pushover is optional, you can edit it out if not required. To get this script running check all the parameters at the top.

backup.sh

#!/bin/bash

DATE=`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S`
PROGNAME=$(basename $0)
APPEND=-$DATE.tar.gz

# Set the local backup directory, ensure that this directory exists
LOCALDIR=$HOME/backups/

# Set the remote directory to backup
REMOTEDIR=/var/www

# Set the remote user
REMOTEUSER=www

# Set the remote IP
REMOTEIP=0.0.0.0

# Set the MySQL user
MYSQLUSER=mysqlusername

# Set the MySQL password
MYSQPASSWORD=mysqlpassword

# Set the MySQL database
MYSQLDATABASE=mysqldatabase

# Set the Pushover token
PUSHOVERTOKEN=pushovertoken

# Set the Pushover token
PUSHOVERUSER=pushoveruser

# Success message
MESSAGE='Backup SUCCESS'


# Generic error and exit function
function error_exit {
  echo "${PROGNAME}: ${1:-"Unknown Error"}" 1>&2
  exit 1
}

# Send push notifications to admin pushover account
function pushover {
  curl -s \
  -F "token=$PUSHOVERTOKEN" \
  -F "user=$PUSHOVERUSER" \
  -F "message=$MESSAGE" \
  https://api.pushover.net/1/messages.json
  return $TRUE
}

# Step 1: ssh into remote server, tar all files
ssh $REMOTEUSER@$REMOTEIP "mkdir tmp-backup-$DATE && cd tmp-backup-$DATE && tar cvfz files-$APPEND $REMOTEDIR && mysqldump -u $MYSQLUSER -$MYSQPASSWORD $MYSQLDATABASE | gzip > sql-$DATE.sql.gz && cd .. && tar cvf files-$APPEND tmp-backup-$DATE"
if [ "$?" != 0 ]; then
  MESSAGE="Backup FAILED [Line $LINENO]"
  pushover
  error_exit "$MESSAGE"
fi

# Step 2: download remote tar archive
scp -c arcfour $REMOTEUSER@$REMOTEIP:files-$APPEND "$LOCALDIR"
if [ "$?" != 0 ]; then
  MESSAGE="Backup FAILED [Line $LINENO]"
  pushover
  error_exit "$MESSAGE"
fi

# Step 3, cleanup remote tar archive
ssh $REMOTEUSER@$REMOTEIP "rm files-$APPEND && rm -rf tmp-backup-$DATE"
if [ "$?" != 0 ]; then
  MESSAGE="Backup FAILED [Line $LINENO]"
  pushover
  error_exit "$MESSAGE"
fi

# Send success push notification
pushover