Hier ein Kleines Script um das Backup durch Images bei Netcup-Vservern zu automatisieren. (Rotierendes Backup).

Das ganze per Cron einbinden. Achtung es werden zum Beispiel bei wöchentlicher Ausführung des Crons alle Backups überschrieben in Wochen zurückgezählt.

#!/bin/sh
#
# Als Anreiz diente ein Script von
# Michael Geiger - tux1337 - www.geigers-site.de
#
# Copyright (C) 2011 Christoph Schuster | ndurchx | www.n-durch-x.de
#Copyright (C) 2011 Phil
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
# under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
# Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your
# option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
# with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
#</sup>

#check for running process
while [ -e /tmp/nvcp/vcp.pid ]; do
if ( kill -0 `cat /tmp/nvcp/vcp.pid` 2&gt; /dev/null ); then
sleep 5
else
rm -R /tmp/nvcp
fi
done
#CONFIG
user="" #your vcp login name
password="" #your vcp password
servername="" #your vserver name (vXXXXXXXXXXXX)
maxbackups=2 # Maximale Backup des Hostingpaketes
#CONFIG END
#PARAMETERS # normally you dont have to change that
#PARAMETERS END

mkdir /tmp/nvcp
chmod 600 /tmp/nvcp
cd /tmp/nvcp
echo $$ &gt; vcp.pid
#Login
curl -b cookie.txt -c cookie.txt -d "doLogin=Login&amp;username=$user&amp;password=$password" --url https://www.vservercontrolpanel.de/Login

curl -b cookie.txt -o tmp.txt --url https://www.vservercontrolpanel.de/Home
tr -d \\012 &lt; tmp.txt &gt; servers.txt

serverid=`grep -o "selectedVServerId=[0-9]\{1,10\}[^0-9]*$servername" servers.txt | grep -m 1 -o "Id=[0-9]*" | grep -o [0-9]*`
curl -b cookie.txt -o backups.txt --url "https://www.vservercontrolpanel.de/VServers?selectedVServerId=$serverid&amp;page=backup"
grep -o -R $servername"_[0-9]\{4\}.[0-9]\{2\}.[0-9]\{2\}_[0-9]\{2\}:[0-9]\{2\}" backups.txt |uniq &gt; backupsavailable.txt

lines=`wc -l backupsavailable.txt | cut -f1 -d' '`
echo $lines
if [ $lines -eq $maxbackups ]
then
btime=`grep -o -R $servername"_[0-9]\{4\}.[0-9]\{2\}.[0-9]\{2\}_[0-9]\{2\}:[0-9]\{2\}" backupsavailable.txt |uniq |sort |head -n1`
curl -b cookie.txt -d "renewBackup=yes&amp;backupToRenew=$btime&amp;comment=Weekly&amp;renewBackup=Backup%20erneuern" --url "https://www.vservercontrolpanel.de/VServers?selectedVServerId=$serverid&amp;page=backup"
echo "Backup erneuern"
echo $btime
else
curl -b cookie.txt -d "createNewBackup=yes&amp;newBackup=neues%20Backup%20anlegen&amp;comment=Weekly" --url "https://www.vservercontrolpanel.de/VServers?selectedVServerId=$serverid&amp;page=backup"
echo "NEUES BACKUP ANLEGEN"
fi

#Logout
curl -b cookie.txt --url https://www.vservercontrolpanel.de/Logout

rm -R /tmp/nvcp

exit 0