Backup Utils

Purpose

This is a collection of misc utilities for doing backup things.

Requirements

• fog gem
• ruby 1.8.7+

Utilities

backup.rb

This utility is configured using etc/config.yml and is used to take the output of a command, encrypt it and then back it up. The idea is that the private key never sits on the server that does the actual backup.

It uses fog to backup to a Swift or Rackspace endpoint.

The specific use case in mind was taking the output of slapcat in to backup an LDAP server.

retrieve_backup.rb

This utility is configured using etc/config.yml and takes a private key path and a date as an input. It then returns the corresponding backup that was performed using backup.rb.