Backup CP, SickRage, SABnabd, nginx, and Plex for newbies

[NasKar]

After a recent problem with couchpotato I realized I need an automatic backup of CouchPotato, SickRage, SABnzbd, ngnix, and Plex. With the help of bmcclure937 whodirected me to https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/scripts-to-report-smart-zpool-and-ups-status-hdd-cpu-t°-hdd-identification-and-backup-the-config.27365/ see script basics, and https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...tato-sabnzbd-sickrage-plex-freenas-9-3.35444/ for the backup and restore examples. As I’m new to unix I would appreciate it if someone could check my post for accuracy. Hopefully other new users will find this helpful.

My Dataset Name =v1, all plugins installed in sabnzbd_1 except Plex is in plexmediaserver_1

I used putty to ssh into my freenas:

mkdir –p /mnt/v1/scripts /mnt/v1/backup/FreeNAS/CouchPotato /mnt/v1/backup/FreeNAS/SickRage /mnt/v1/backup/FreeNAS/SABnzbd /mnt/v1/backup/FreeNAS/nginx/ /mnt/v1/backup/FreeNAS/Plex

cd /mnt/v1/scripts

nano -w backup.sh

copy the code below and paste into nano by right clicking the mouse

#!/bin/sh


### Backup CP,SickRage,SABnzbd,Plex,nginx ###

echo ""

cp -aR /mnt/v1/jails/sabnzbd_1/var/db/couchpotato/ /mnt/v1/backup/FreeNAS/CouchPotato/

cp -aR /mnt/v1/jails/sabnzbd_1/var/db/sickrage/ /mnt/v1/backup/FreeNAS/SickRage/

cp -aR /mnt/v1/jails/sabnzbd_1/var/db/sabnzbd/ /mnt/v1/backup/FreeNAS/SABnzbd/

cp -aR /mnt/v1/jails/sabnzbd_1/usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf /mnt/v1/backup/Fr$

cd /mnt/v1/jails/plexmediaserver_1/var/db/

tar cvfz /mnt/v1/backup/FreeNAS/Plex/plexdata.tar.gz plexdata

echo "Backup Complete"


save and quit the editor (for nano: Ctrl + O then Enter, and then Ctrl + X)

Add execution rights to the file:chmod +x backup.sh

Now you should have a working script, you can test it like this:./backup.sh

I created a cron job to backup at 2am everyday.

The restore script is:

#!/bin/sh


### Restore CP,SickRage,SABnzbd,Plex,nginx ###

echo ""

cp -aR /mnt/v1/backup/FreeNAS/CouchPotato/ /mnt/v1/jails/sabnzbd_1/var/db/couchpotato/
cp -aR /mnt/v1/backup/FreeNAS/SABnzbd/ /mnt/v1/jails/sabnzbd_1/var/db/sabnzbd/
cp -aR /mnt/v1/backup/FreeNAS/SickRage/ /mnt/v1/jails/sabnzbd_1/var/db/sickrage/
cp -aR /mnt/v1/backup/FreeNAS/nginx/nginx.conf /mnt/v1/jails/sabnzbd_1/usr/local/etc/nginx/
cd /mnt/v1/jails/plexmediaserver_1/var/db/
tar xvfz /mnt/v1/backup/FreeNAS/Plex/plexdata.tar.gz

echo "Restore Complete"

 

[pirateghost]

I prefer to keep each application in it's own dataset, mount that as storage and utilize snapshots. Anything that gets broken can be rolled back.

 

[NasKar]

it looks like I'm getting a cron error /scripts/backup.sh not found. I changed the lines for
mkdir –p /mnt/v1/scripts /mnt/v1/backup/FreeNAS/CouchPotato /mnt/v1/backup/FreeNAS/SickRage /mnt/v1/backup/FreeNAS/SABnzbd /mnt/v1/backup/FreeNAS/nginx/ /mnt/v1/backup/FreeNAS/Plex
to
mkdir –p /scripts /mnt/v1/backup/FreeNAS/CouchPotato /mnt/v1/backup/FreeNAS/SickRage /mnt/v1/backup/FreeNAS/SABnzbd /mnt/v1/backup/FreeNAS/nginx/ /mnt/v1/backup/FreeNAS/Plex
and
cd /mnt/v1/scripts to cd /scripts to put the scripts into a subdir /scripts in the root so it can be found.

 

[pirateghost]

Why would you put it on the root of your OS disk?

Don't do this.

 

[NasKar]

I did it because I got the error "/scripts/backup.sh: not found in an email after the cron job ran. Originally I had it in the /mnt/v1/scripts directory but after moving it to the root I got the same error. I'm not sure what I'm doing incorrectly. BTW I'm not familar with how to use snapshots so I thought this would be easier <G>.

 

[Steve Brown]

NasKar you probably didnt change the name of your pool/dataset. His is named v1 which is probably not the same as yours or maybe it is. However mine is labeled "data". Also I use RSYNC to backup these directories which only copy's the data if it has changed.

just replace "cp -aR" with "rsync -rv"

 

[NasKar]

Steve Brown I'm not familar with Rsync but will look into it. Do you have it run a script from a cron job? My cron job isn't working I'm not sure why but I can run the script manually.

 

[Steve Brown]

Yes I have it run on a cron...

here is my cron setup.

here is my script .. well the meat of it which is all you really need. The " Quotations are not needed " I just had them there just incase there was a space in my directory structure.

 

[Supa]

• • tar -cvfz /mnt/v1/Backups/plexdata.tar.gz /mnt/v1/jails/plexmediaserver_1/var/db/plexdata/

This fails for me.. any idea why? Literally just stops and says "error". I wonder if there's a size limit.

 

[NasKar]

• • tar -cvfz /mnt/v1/Backups/plexdata.tar.gz /mnt/v1/jails/plexmediaserver_1/var/db/plexdata/

This fails for me.. any idea why? Literally just stops and says "error". I wonder if there's a size limit.

My guess would be you didn't do 'cd /mnt/v1/jails/plexmediaserver_1/var/db/' before the tar command.