My Database & File Distributed Backup Cron Job

Real men do not do backup...

• A little magic script: login to remote host via SSH - or run command there.
• Save code below in: /usr/local/bin/ssh.py
• # ln -s /usr/local/bin/ssh.py /usr/local/bin/gauss
• # ln -s /usr/local/bin/ssh.py /usr/local/bin/ole@gauss

#!/usr/bin/python

import os,sys,re

##Get hostname from command name.
##Should be soft link to this script.

args=sys.argv
command=args.pop(0)
command=command.split('/')

host=command.pop()

user=""
srch=re.search('(\S+)\@(\S+)',host)
if (  re.search('(\S+)\@(\S+)',host)   ):
   user=srch.group(1)+"@"
   host=srch.group(2)

command=[
   "/usr/bin/ssh",
   "-X",
   user+host,
]+args

res=os.system(   " ".join(command)   )

• root@gauss:~# grep ocean /etc/hosts
  67.207.88.206 ocean
  root@gauss:~#
• root@gauss:~# ocean df
  Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
  /dev/vda1 61797116 10922488 47712680 19% /
  udev 10240 0 10240 0% /dev
  tmpfs 811784 396 811388 1% /run
  tmpfs 2029460 0 2029460 0% /dev/shm
  tmpfs 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
  tmpfs 2029460 0 2029460 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
  /dev/sdb 103081248 85193336 12628648 88% /scsi1
  tmpfs 405892 0 405892 0% /run/user/0
  root@gauss:~#