Dependencies

zyxBackup is a shell script and depends on other commands, programs, or scripts.

Basic commands (required):

• tar : To archives files
• gzip : To compress archive file.
  
• bc : To calculate filesize.
• rm : To delete tmp files.
• touch : To create the empty archive file.

Specific commands (depend on the options used) :

• dpkg : to get the list of installed packages (only on Debian/Ubuntu distros).
• logger : To write log in syslog.
• mysqldump : To backup the MySQL database.
• gpg : To encrypt the compressed archive file.
• mail : To send the report by email.
  
• scp : To upload the file via scp.

External script :

• ftp-upload : ftp-upload is a perl script written by Roderick Schertler and can be downloaded on his webpage here : http://www.argon.org/~roderick/.
  
  It can also be downloaded here : ftp-upload-1.5.tar.gz