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Total.js – New module for Total.js: SSH backup

Total.js has published next very interesting and useful module. According to me it is this is one another module worthy of attention paid to after the scheduler module. This is package for backing up files to remote server over sftp (ssh).   Benefits exceed expectations. Modul copes with the different burden on the network and with different sizes of files – encourage you to individual a test.

Installation

• download the module sshbackup.js
• add it into the modules in your application directory

/your-application-directory/modules/sshbackup.js

Install ssh2 module from npm using npm install ssh2

Initialization

Paste the code bellow to some definition file.

    MODULE('ssh-backup').init({
        host: '1.2.3.4',
        port: 22,
        username: 'username',
        password: 'password'
    });

    // or using privateKey

    MODULE('ssh-backup').init({
        host: '1.2.3.4',
        port: 22,
        username: 'username',
        privateKey: require('fs').readFileSync('/path/to/the/key')
    });

Usage

    var source = '/local/path/to/the/file.json';
    var dest = '/remote/path/to/the/file.json';

    MODULE('ssh-backup').backup(source, dest, function(err){
        console.log('DONE', err);
    });

source: https://github.com/totaljs/modules/blob/master/Miscellaneous/sshbackup/readme.md