In a hosted environment you ususally don’t have direct access to the database where calendars and contacts are stored.
And even when the provider has some sort of backup
- you don’t really own it, because you can’t download it
- e.g. you don’t can’t just migrate in case you are locked out for some reason
- its an “all or nothing” story when it comes to restores
- the whole instance/account is reset to some point in time
- any change in between the last backup is effectively overwritten
Enter backup_hosted_nextcloud_database.sh:
Create a settings file ~/.backup_hosted_nextcloud_database.sh (a commented example can be in the script help page with “-h”):
NEXTCLOUD_SERVER=nextcloud.example.com USERNAME=my_username PASSWORD=$(pass nextcloud.example.com) OUT_DIR=~/mirror/nextcloud.example.com CALENDARS="acalendar bcalendar" ADDRESSBOOKS="contacts"
Run the scripts and ICS and VCF files are written to ~/mirror/nextcloud.example.com:
$ backup_hosted_nextcloud_database.sh Downloading calender 'acalendar' ... Downloading calender 'bcalendar' ... Downloading addressbook 'contacts' ... Download finished successfully