Overview

The rattail backup command can do a few things, any or all of the following based on how you configure and/or invoke it:

• dump database(s) to file (supports PostgreSQL and MySQL/MariaDB)

• run rsync for certain folders, copying to local or (via SSH) remote path

• run borg create to make a Borg backup archive, on local or remote path

Recommended practice is to create a backup-everything script which hides the invocation details. The idea being, on “any” machine you should be able to just do this and everything should work:

sudo -H backup-everything --verbose