diff --git a/backup_latex.sh b/backup_latex.sh
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-#!/bin/bash
-#this script makes a copy of each container and backups afterwards the copies
-set -x
-
-# tar -czvf /root/latex2.tar.gz /root/sharelatex_data/ /root/mongo_data/ /root/redis_data/
-
-backuppath='/srv/backUP/sharelatex/'
-backupuser='rick-monitoring'
-lxccmd='/snap/bin/lxc'
-lxc_exec='tar -czvf /root/backup_latex.tar.gz /root/sharelatex_data/ /root/mongo_data/ /root/redis_data/'
-lxc_con='sharelatex-0'
-
-#some validations
-if [ ! -d ${backuppath} ]
-then
-	echo "Please set a backup directory which is accessible by this script"
-	exit 2
-fi
-
-id $backupuser > /dev/null 2>&1
-if [ $? -ne 0 ]
-then 
-	echo "Please set a valid user within this script"
-	exit 2
-fi
-
-# BackUP sharelatex data
-	${lxccmd} exec  ${lxc_con} -- ${lxc_exec}
-
-# Copy from container to /srv/backUP/sharelatex
-
-        ${lxccmd} file pull ${lxc_con}/root/backup_latex.tar.gz ${backuppath}
-	mv ${backuppath}backup_latex.tar.gz ${backuppath}$(date +%Y_%m_%d)_latex.tar.gz 	
-
-#housekeeping - keep last 14 days
-#find ${backuppath} -mtime +14 -exec rm -f {} \;
-
-#own data for backupuser
-chown -R ${backupuser}:${backupuser} ${backuppath}