Tool to manage rundeck backups

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Another rundeck blog post. In the latest post we talked about how to move rundeck from one server to another, and we found out there are quite a lot of files to handle (ssh key files, rundeck's configuration, project definitions, job definitions...). Well, with that info, and with the intention of simplify backup tasks, I've written a shell-script to manage rundeck backups, backup and recovery. You can find it at github: https://github.com/ersiko/rundeck-backup and right here in in the page project

It works plain simple, you just need to backup like this

[root@server ~]# ./rundeck-backup.sh backup rundeck.tar.gz
OK - backup finished successfully using /root/rundeck-backup.tar.gz

If we don't type the file name, the backup will be written with today's data:

[root@server ~]# ./rundeck-backup.sh backup
OK - backup finished successfully using /root/rundeck-backup-20130327.tar.gz

And for the recovery, as easy as:

[root@server ~]# ./rundeck-backup.sh restore
Rundeck service is not running, so jobs can't be restored. Do you want to start rundeck? (y/N) y
Starting rundeckd:                               [ DONE  ]
OK - restore finished successfully using /root/rundeck-backup-20130327.tar.gz

There are also other options, to cover all scenarios I've thought of:

[root@server ~]# ./rundeck-backup.sh -h
rundeck_backup - v1.00
Copyleft (c) 2013 Tomàs Núñez Lirola <tnunez@criptos.com> under GPL License
This script deals with rundeck backup/recovery.
Usage: ./rundeck-backup.sh [OPTIONS...] {backup|restore} [backup_file] | -h --help
Options:
-h | --help
     Print detailed help
--exclude-config
     Don't backup / restore config files
--exclude-projects
     Don't backup / restore project definitions
--exclude-keys
     Don't backup / restore ssh key files
--exclude-jobs
     Don't backup / restore job definitions
--exclude-hosts
     Don't backup / restore .ssh/known_hosts file
--include-logs
     Include execution logs in the backup / restore procedure (they are excluded by default)
-c <directory> | --configdir <directory>
     Change default rundeck config directory (/etc/rundeck)
-u <user> | --user <user>
     Change default rundeck user (rundeck)
-s <service> | --service <service
     Change default rundeck service (rundeckd)
-f | --force
     Assume 'yes' to all questions
This plugin will backup or restore a rundeck instance, copying files and exporting job definitions with rd-jobs tool. 
Examples:
     /home/users/scripts/rundeck-backup.sh backup rundeck-201303.tar.gz
     /home/users/scripts/rundeck-backup.sh restore --exclude-jobs rundeck-201303.tar.gz