asifbacchus/mailcowbackup

Script to backup/restore Mailcow and the host system using borgbackup. Handles 503 error page generation, mailflow stop/restart, SQL database dump, borg backup and prune and integrates with Logwatch for easy monitoring.

mailcowbackup's Issues

Reports can't start Dovecot/Postfix

Hi the script seem to be reporting it couldn't start Dovecot and Postfix when it dose manage to start it.

Got this from logs

[ERROR] Could not start Postfix container. Please check docker logs (code: 103)
[ERROR] Could not start Dovecot container. Please check docker logs (code: 104)
docker inspect" requires at least 1 argument.

backup script not working with docker compose v2

Hi,

the script is not working anymore with docker compose v2 (latest mailcow and docker update)

error is:

Return low-level information on Docker objects
"docker inspect" requires at least 1 argument.
See 'docker inspect --help'.

same issue as in #13

Hey

I just found out my backup stopped working too with the same issue as in #13
Can't figure out why. Maybe a syntax change in docker itself with the new compose v2?

Usage: docker inspect [OPTIONS] NAME|ID [NAME|ID...]

Return low-level information on Docker objects
"docker inspect" requires at least 1 argument.
See 'docker inspect --help'.

Any idea on this one? Didn't change anything besides upgrading to compose v2 as suggested and don't use btrfs

Wiki is down?

Hey

For some reason I can't access any of the links to your wiki? Is there some issue with your server or is there another instance of your wiki that I could check out.

Thanks for building such a rad tool!

howto restore from a backup

Hi,

Really awesome project and I finally manage to get everything up and running with a remote borg server.

Now I'm just wondering how to restore in a proper way – don’t seem to find anything in the wiki about that part, maybe you could perhaps share some guidance for that?

Thanks.....

Cronjob failing due to missing PATH

Sorry, me again. Just checked today if my cronjob was running last night and found ou it did not.
Little debugging later the cronjob throws a ERROR: BORG is not installed on this system!

Any idea how that could be? borg is installed as binary in /usr/local/bin and executed fine manually.
The if ! command -v borg statement looks fine for me, must have to do something with the context in which crontab jobs are started!?

Edit: Looks like my crontab env is different and is missing the PATH. I just added the PATH variable to the crontab file maybe as a feature request to minimize this issue for other, specify a location for borg in the details file?

Wrong formating in details file...

You made the follwing changes to the details file, but the script is complaining afterwards regarding the spaces!?
Otherwise thanks for the additons 👍

-borgSSHKey="/var/borgbackup/private.key"
+borgSSHKey = "/var/borgbackup/private.key"
-borgBaseDir="/var/borgbackup"
+borgBaseDir = "/var/borgbackup"
-borgConnectRepo="[email protected]:mailcow/"
+borgConnectRepo = "[email protected]:mailcow/"

/var/borgbackup/backup.sh: 19: /var/borgbackup/backup.details: borgSSHPort: not found
/var/borgbackup/backup.sh: 24: /var/borgbackup/backup.details: borgBaseDir: not found
/var/borgbackup/backup.sh: 33: /var/borgbackup/backup.details: borgConnectRep: not found

[Suggestion] add version of script in help

Hi ,
It would be nice to have a way to know the actual version of the script ;)
I did not found it, so I am not sure if it is already somewhere.

Thanks for you contribution on that backup script.

Ben

What means "Line 1: Path to borg base directory"

I've tried to setup MailcowBackup for several times now, but I'm not sure how to set it up properly.
Maybe here is some additional documentation necessary?

My Backups are always failing with the following message:
[ERROR] Invalid or non-existant borg base directory specified (borg backup details file) (code: 210)

Im running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with borgbackup from the offical Ubuntu repository.

error with borg 1.0

Hello! I get this error:

[2021-02-09 23:35:05] -- [INFO] Executing borg backup operation --
usage: borg [-h] [-V] <command> ...
borg: error: unrecognized arguments: --show-rc
[2021-02-09 23:35:06] -- [ERROR] 138: Borg exited with a critical error. Please review this log file for details. --

I think its because I'm using borg 1.0
changing the order of arguments in borgCMD seems to work:

diff --git a/backup/backup.sh b/backup/backup.sh
index 1ec685a..2c3c27b 100755
--- a/backup/backup.sh
+++ b/backup/backup.sh
@@ -672,7 +672,7 @@ printf "%s[%s] -- [INFO] Pre-backup tasks completed, calling borgbackup --%s\n"
 ## construct the proper borg commandline
 # base command
 if [ "$exclusions" -eq 0 ]; then
-    borgCMD="borg --show-rc create ${borgCreateParams} \
+    borgCMD="borg create --show-rc ${borgCreateParams} \
         ::$(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H%M%S) \
         ${mcConfig%/*} \
         ${sqlDumpDir} \
@@ -683,7 +683,7 @@ if [ "$exclusions" -eq 0 ]; then
         ${dockerVolumeCrypt} \
         ${xtraList}"
 elif [ "$exclusions" -eq 1 ]; then
-    borgCMD="borg --show-rc create ${borgCreateParams} \
+    borgCMD="borg create --show-rc ${borgCreateParams} \
         --exclude-from ${borgExcludeListPath} \
         ::$(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H%M%S) \
         ${mcConfig%/*} \

Feature ideas and / or requests - Colours in log and SSH port config

Hey,

just finished my mailserver and was looking for a backup solution. Found your script and I'm happy with it.

Two things tho, maybe you can make the use of colour in the logfile optional? It would make parsing and looking at it with different tools more easily. (I just removed the command -v tput...)

Also, my remote server is not listening to the default ssh port 22 due to secrity reasons, so I modified line 512 to use a different port.

export BORG_RSH="ssh -p 0815 -i ${borgSSHKey}"

Would be nice to have this as a configuration option also

Otherwise thanks for your script.

How to backup to local folder

Hi,

I can't access my backup space using ssh. Therefore, I plan to backup to a local folder and use ftps to mirror this folder to my backup space.

How can I configure a backup to a local folder?

Thanks,

Martin

Multiple mailcow.conf

The script bugs out trying to find the mailcow.conf since I had an apache site conf called mailcow.conf. I couldn't override the path either explicitly with an argument either. Something to look in to. I just renamed the site, but may be good for others