Full Linux Server Backup with Duplicity & S3

Full Linux Server Backup with Duplicity & S3

# Install Duplicity 

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install duplicity duply python-boto screen

#Create a profile of backup.

duply backupfullserver create

#Generate Secure Password for GPG

openssl rand -base64 20

#Edit Profile Config

nano /root/.duply/backupfullserver/conf

#Uncomemnt GPG_PW and Put OpenSSL password in
GPG_PW='<the password you just got from openssl>'
#Comment GPG_KEY
#GPG_KEY='_KEY_ID_'

#Scroll down and set the TARGET options and replace according to your bucket and region
TARGET='s3://s3-region.amazonaws.com/bucker-name/folder/'

#Change Source with this
SOURCE='/'

#Add These Line
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=''
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=''

#Set a maximum time for keeping old backups.
MAX_AGE=1M

# Exclude Temp files
nano /root/.duply/backupfullserver/exclude

#Add these lines
- /dev
- /home/*/.cache
- /home/*/.ccache
- /lost+found
- /media
- /mnt
- /proc
- /root/.cache
- /root/.ccache
- /run
- /selinux
- /sys
- /tmp
- /u/apps/*/current/log/*
- /u/apps/*/releases/*/log/*
- /var/cache/*/*
- /var/log
- /var/run
- /var/tmp

# Start backup. Open Screen 
screen

# Initiate the backup
sudo duply backupfullserver backup

# Deattach screen
Press Clt + A + D

# Reattach screen
screen -x

#Simple restores
sudo duply main restore /restored_files
or
# Might now work
sudo duply main restore /