# Firefish backup scripts

## Introduction:

The bash files that create:

* A backup of the Firefish default.yml config and Firefish user /files/ directory
* A PostgreSQL backup of the WHOLE database
* A zipped archive of the above

## Files:


* ### [backup_firefish_db.sh]

	The script to create a binary backup of the PostgreSQL database. This needs .pgpass to be in place so that it can execute without a password prompt when using cron

* ### [backup_firefish_files.sh]

	The script to create a backup of the default.yml config file and then the Firefish user /files/ directory that hold the 'Drive' files

	The script first removes the file to show that a previous backup was created

	The removed file is replaced when a new backup is successfully completed

	The [**restore_firefish.sh**] process will not run if this file is not in place

* ### [backup_firefish_zipped.sh]

	The script to create an archive of the Firefish configs, the user files backup and the PostgreSQL database backup. The script then creates a file to show that a backup has successfully completed

## .pgpass

Set up .pgpass to allow for postgres account authorisation without passing a password:

sudo nano /home/$USER/.pgpass

\#hostname:port:database:username:password

\*:\*:\*:ThePostgresAccount:ThePostgresAccountPassword

sudo chown $USER:$USER /home/$USER/.pgpass

chmod 600 /home/$USER/.pgpass

export PGPASSFILE='/home/$USER/.pgpass'

Check the enviroment variable has been set using:

env