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Backup Reverse Proxy Site Configs to BS

I like to keep copies of things in various other places, and I like historical records of things. My installation here is what I primarily use as a notebook, blog, and general how-to because I CRS on a regular basis. I figured why not use the power of some bash scripting to run on a schedule to look at things, and then use BS API to add stuff here as a backup? Sure, my PM is backed up regularly, but quick views, edits, opening BS is much faster.

Concept

Use BS API in a bash script to back up the file contents of my NGINX reverse proxy container's /etc/sites-available/ files to a specific book

Features

  • Each container = Chapter in the designated NRP Book
  • Each backup = versioned page, named after the site config file's name
  • Each page includes
    • DTG of backup
    • Container Name
    • Container ID
    • Container IP
    • Version Number
    • SHA256 Hash
    • Current File Output
    • Difference Output
  • Script will run on schedule from CRON, backs up the configs only if the file changed
  • Automatically creates the chapter if missing

The script will create a hash of each site config to help track changes. Initial run will upload everything in the directory, then subsequent runs of the script will generate a new hash, and compare - changes detected, upload the new version. Previous hashes per container will be stored for reference.

Script

Script is loaded and run from the NGINX reverse proxy container:Ā /root/nginx_backup_live.sh

Update the script's permissions:

chmod +x /root/nginx_backup_live.sh

CRON schedule:Ā 

# EVERY HOUR
0 * * * * /root/nginx_backup_live.sh

# EVERY FOUR HOURS
0 */4 * * * /root/nginx_backup_live.sh

# DAILY AT 0200
0 2 * * * /root/nginx_backup_live.sh

# PICK ONE AND ADD IT OR ROLL YOUR OWN!

The actual live script:

#!/bin/bash

# Config
BOOKSTACK_URL="https://yoursite.com/api"
BOOK_ID=30
TOKEN_ID="ADD_TOKEN_HERE"
TOKEN_SECRET="ADD_SECRET_HERE"
CONFIG_DIR="/etc/nginx/sites-available"
HASH_DIR="$HOME/.nginx-backup-tracker"

# Mapping container names to IDs (used for internal reference)
declare -A container_ids=(
  [nginxproxy]=151
  [ag.skynet2.net]=152
  [vw.skynet2.net]=153
  # ADD ALL YOUR CONTAINERS!
)

mkdir -p "$HASH_DIR"

for conf_file in "$CONFIG_DIR"/*; do
  name=$(basename "$conf_file")
  id=${container_ids[$name]:-UNKNOWN}
  ip="192.168.0.${id}"
  [[ "$id" == "UNKNOWN" ]] && echo "āš ļø  Unknown container ID for $name (file: $conf_file)" && continue

  hash_file="$HASH_DIR/$name.sha256"
  file_hash=$(sha256sum "$conf_file" | awk '{print $1}')

  if [[ -f "$hash_file" && "$file_hash" == "$(cat "$hash_file")" ]]; then
    echo "šŸŸ¢ [$name] No changes since last backup (hash unchanged)"
    continue
  fi

  echo "$file_hash" > "$hash_file"
  dtg=$(TZ="America/Phoenix" date "+%d%b%y %H%M" | tr 'a-z' 'A-Z')
  version=$(ls "$HASH_DIR/${name}_v"*.sha256 2>/dev/null | wc -l)
  version=$((version + 1))
  cp "$conf_file" "$HASH_DIR/${name}_v${version}.sha256"

  encoded_content=$(sed 's/&/\&amp;/g; s/</\&lt;/g; s/>/\&gt;/g; s/"/\&quot;/g' "$conf_file" | sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/\&#10;/g')

  page_html="<table class=\"align-center\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; border-width: 0px; border-style: none; width: 100%;\" border=\"0\">
<colgroup><col style=\"width: 22.0487%;\"><col style=\"width: 22.7638%;\"><col style=\"width: 20.5049%;\"><col style=\"width: 17.1567%;\"><col style=\"width: 17.639%;\"></colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr><td><span style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219);\"><strong>DTG OF IMPORT</strong></span></td><td><span style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219);\"><strong>CONTAINER NAME</strong></span></td><td><span style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219);\"><strong>CONTAINER ID</strong></span></td><td><span style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219);\"><strong>IP</strong></span></td><td><span style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219);\"><strong>VERSION OF FILE</strong></span></td></tr>
<tr><td>$dtg</td><td>$name</td><td>$id</td><td>$ip</td><td>$version</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan=\"5\"><span style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219);\"><strong>SHA256 HASH VALUE</strong></span></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan=\"5\">$file_hash</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<pre><code class=\"language-nginx\">$encoded_content</code></pre>"

  # Create or get chapter ID
  chapter_resp=$(curl -s -H "Authorization: Token $TOKEN_ID:$TOKEN_SECRET" \
                       -H "Accept: application/json" \
                       "$BOOKSTACK_URL/books/$BOOK_ID/chapters")
  echo "$chapter_resp" > /tmp/bookstack_chapters_response.json
  chapter_id=$(echo "$chapter_resp" | jq -r ".data[] | select(.name == \"$name\") | .id")

  if [[ -z "$chapter_id" || "$chapter_id" == "null" ]]; then
    echo "šŸ“˜ Chapter '$name' not found. Creating it..."
    chapter_payload=$(jq -n --arg name "$name" --argjson book_id "$BOOK_ID" '{name: $name, book_id: $book_id}')
    chapter_result=$(curl -s -X POST "$BOOKSTACK_URL/chapters" \
      -H "Authorization: Token $TOKEN_ID:$TOKEN_SECRET" \
      -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
      -d "$chapter_payload")
    echo "$chapter_result" > /tmp/bookstack_chapter_create_result.json
    chapter_id=$(echo "$chapter_result" | jq -r '.id')
  fi

  page_title="Site Config Ver $version $dtg"
  echo -e "\nšŸ“¤ Uploading page for $name..."

  json_payload=$(jq -n \
    --arg name "$page_title" \
    --arg html "$page_html" \
    --argjson book_id "$BOOK_ID" \
    --argjson chapter_id "$chapter_id" \
    '{name: $name, book_id: $book_id, chapter_id: $chapter_id, html: $html}')

  result=$(curl -s -X POST "$BOOKSTACK_URL/pages" \
    -H "Authorization: Token $TOKEN_ID:$TOKEN_SECRET" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d "$json_payload")

  if echo "$result" | grep -q '"error"'; then
    echo "āŒ Upload failed for $name"
    echo "API Response: $result"
  else
    echo "āœ… Uploaded new config version for $name"
  fi

done
# Cleanup temp debug files
rm -f /tmp/bookstack_chapters_response.json /tmp/bookstack_chapter_create_result.json

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