#!/bin/bash #this script makes a copy of each container and backups afterwards the copies #set -x backuppath='/srv/backUP/lxc/' backupuser='rick-monitoring' lxccmd='/snap/bin/lxc' #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 for container in $(${lxccmd} list --format csv -c n | grep -v backup| grep -v "^oo" | grep -v test); do ${lxccmd} copy ${container} ${container}-backup ${lxccmd} export ${container}-backup ${backuppath}$(date +%Y_%m_%d)-lxc-${container}.tar.gz --optimized-storage ${lxccmd} delete ${container}-backup done #housekeeping - keep last 28 days find ${backuppath} -mtime +28 -exec rm -f {} \; #own data for backupuser chown -R ${backupuser}:${backupuser} ${backuppath}