Please can someone explain how environment variables work and I can use them to make an automated backup script with api key access?
environment variables?
- Thread starter barrydocks
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Environment variables are simple key/value pairs that are defined locally or global and referenced later.
How do I use them? Are they stored in a local text file and read automatically or included in a script?
Either inside the same script or an external „script“ (actually just a file with one key/value pair per line) and included by
Code:
source <path to file>I would suggest you read a tutorial on shell programming and some existing script and try to tweak it, this should clear most questions:
https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html
https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/b...-shell-script-and-command-line-for-beginners/
What I don't understand though why you would need to create a script to do backups with an api key. The native WebUI of ProxmoxVE and PBS allows (if you configured permissions correctly) to run scheduled backup jobs for lxcs and vms without creating your own shell script.
https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html
https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/b...-shell-script-and-command-line-for-beginners/
What I don't understand though why you would need to create a script to do backups with an api key. The native WebUI of ProxmoxVE and PBS allows (if you configured permissions correctly) to run scheduled backup jobs for lxcs and vms without creating your own shell script.
I want to back up a couple of individual files and directories off one of the VMs to give instant access to them in the event of a problem as it might take some time to restore the full VM image especially in the event of a hardware failure
I use it to backup nodes of a Proxmox cluster with proxmox-backup-client. That way I can keep configuration away from logik.