Merge branch 'master' into staging

daily_backup.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Backup a Postgresql database into a daily file.
+# Run daily at midnight as a cron job: 
+# crontab -e
+# 0 0 * * * sudo /bin/su -c "/var/lib/postgresql/daily_backup.sh" - postgres >/dev/null 2>&1
+#
+TODAY=`date --iso-8601`
+BACKUP_DIR=/home/alex/curate_backups
+DAYS_TO_KEEP=30
+DATABASE=curate
+USER=postgres
+OUTPUT_FILE=${BACKUP_DIR}/curate$TODAY.bak
+
+# do the database backup (dump)
+# use this command for a database server on localhost. add other options if need be.
+pg_dump ${DATABASE} > ${OUTPUT_FILE}
+
+# gzip the mysql database dump file
+# gzip $OUTPUT_FILE
+
+# show the user the result
+# echo "${OUTPUT_FILE} was created."
+# ls -l ${OUTPUT_FILE}.gz
+
+# prune old backups
+find $BACKUP_DIR -maxdepth 1 -mtime +$DAYS_TO_KEEP -name "*.bak" -exec rm -rf '{}' ';'
+