phpBAT - a PHP based Backup & Admin Tool

-! WORK IN PROGRESS !-

!- The development of the version 3 (phar) is at a very early stage.
!- Neither tests nor feedback are currently useful.
!- As soon as the situation changes, I will inform you.

The specifications for version 3 are still in the concept phase.
Below you will find the readme for the old version 2.

Supporting | Features | License | Requirements | Installing | Getting started | Credits | Changelog | History

Supporting

GitHub | Patreon | PayPal | Amazon

Features

• full server backups
• server updates
• server cleanup
• backup individual folders to archive (tar, tar.gz)
• dump mysql/mariadb
• access rights adjustment (chmod)
• delete old backups and logs
• compression (optional)
• encrypt and decrypt backups (optional)
• synchronisation/replication from or to rsync/ftp/ftps/sftp
• logging (with levels) by output, log-file and mail
• automatic selfupdates
• custom and easy configuration

License

This software is distributed under the MIT license. Please read LICENSE for information.

Requirements

• PHP 8.0.0 or higher
• fully supported OS: Debian, Rasbian, Ubuntu, Arch, Manjaro
• partially supported: other Linux, Mac OS, Windows
• complete requirements documented in Configuration.Default.jsonc

Installing

download latest Release

tar xvz -f x.x.x.tar.gz
rm x.x.x.tar.gz

Getting started

copy Configuration.Default.jsonc to Configuration.jsonc and editing it.

using php-cli

php phpBAT.php

using cron: daily

crontab -e

0 2 * * * php /root/phpbat/phpBAT.php -cron

using php-cli: decrypt all encrypted backups

php phpBAT.php -d

using php-cli: decrypt a encrypted backup-file

php phpBAT.php -df file.enc

Credits

• https://github.com/splitbrain/php-archive
• https://github.com/ifsnop/mysqldump-php
• https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer
• https://github.com/phpseclib/phpseclib
• https://github.com/paragonie/constant_time_encoding

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.

History

• originally written in 2018 as a private tool for my server
• complete rewritten (2.x) and published in 2021 on github