Thread: How to Backup the Tomato Firmware's Bandwidth Logs (Rstats) to a FTP Server

I was just working on doing this the other day. Nimrod was asking why was I even bothering and to just use some program. I couldn't find anything useful on the net. Though tonight I was searching on Google very hard for a good script and I was amazed at what site I finally was returned to...DIGIEX!!! I'm glad you already have a guide for this.

Quick qustion though, is there anyway to change it to back up sooner then every 12 hours? What if your router dies, electric dies, a tornado come through and you want that data to be preserved.

I have a ftp server running on my PC at the moment InsaneNutter but do you think it would be better to back this data up to my webspace here?

I think it would be better to backup to a remote server such as your Digiex webspace. A dedicated server should be online 24/7, at some point your pc is not going to be on when your router wants to backup the bandwidth logs. (especially as you like installing new Windows 7 builds)

The advantage of doing the bandwidth monitoring with your router is that it will log the bandwidth used by every device on your network and not just a pc running an application to do so, this means the bandwidth used by the 360 and other games consoles will also be logged.

To change when the logs are backed up I think you would find "1 */12 * * * /tmp/backup-rstats" and modify the 12 to 1 for example if you want the backup to run every hour.

The script has been working perfectly for the last 1 and a half years now.

Finally got it working fully today. Of course this picture is mostly showing all your rstats since you sent me yours. Though its backing up once every hour to my user webspace here. which is behind a webpage so no one should be able to see it inless they access it via a ftp client which to my knowledge doesn't work without a user and pass.

Thanks for helping me today on MSN. I turned out leaving the shutdown code as it was and changing the wan up script a little to this. so it replaces the old file on the server instead on creating a new one each time.

Code:

USER="PUT FTP USERNAME HERE"
PASS="PUT FTP PASSWORD HERE"
PORT=PUT FTP PORT HERE
SERVER="PUT FTP HOST HERE IP OR HOSTNAME"
RPATH="/Router/rstats.tgz" WHERE IT SAYS ROUTER YOU CAN CHANGE THAT TO BE ANYTHING. LETS SAY IF IT SAYS "/ROUTER/RSTATS.TGZ" THEN IT TELLS THIS SCRIPT TO MAKE THE FILE RSTATS.TGZ IN THE REMOTE PATH /ROUTER WHICH IS A FOLDER I HAVE CREATED ON MY WEBSPACE. (DELETE THIS IF YOU INTEND TO USE IT)
LPATH="/tmp/rstats.tgz"
 
if [ ! -s /tmp/backup-rstats ] ; then
    echo -e "#!/bin/sh\nkillall -1 rstats\nsleep 1\ntar -czf \"$LPATH\" /tmp/var/lib/misc/rstats-*\nftpput -u \"$USER\" -p \"$PASS\" -P $PORT $SERVER \"$RPATH\" \"$LPATH\"\nftpput -u \"$USER\" -p \"$PASS\" -P $PORT $SERVER \"$LPATH\"\nrm \"$LPATH\"" > /tmp/backup-rstats
    chmod 777 /tmp/backup-rstats
    echo -e "#!/bin/sh\nservice rstats stop\nftpget -u \"$USER\" -p \"$PASS\" -P $PORT $SERVER \"$LPATH\" \"$RPATH\"" > /tmp/restore-rstats
    echo -e "if [ \$? != 0 ] ; then\n  logger RStats Restore Failed... will retry\n  cru a rstats \"*/5 * * * * /tmp/restore-rstats\"\n  return 1\nfi\ntar -xzf \"$LPATH\" -C /\nrm \"$LPATH\"\nservice rstats start\ncru a rstats \"1 */1 * * * /tmp/backup-rstats\"" >> /tmp/restore-rstats
    echo -e "logger RStats Data Restored\nrm /tmp/restore-rstats" >> /tmp/restore-rstats
    chmod 777 /tmp/restore-rstats
    /tmp/restore-rstats
fi

As you can see it updated the file on the server at 11:01!!!!! Thanks again!

Glad you got it working

I think the idea of having it creating a separate file is so if an upload was to fail or the file got corrupted you could just restore another backup and not lose everything.
As the files are only a few kb i left it be.

No idea who created the script but a big thanks to them!