filewave-serverbackup

The script that can backup and restore a FileWave Server. Download it, make it executable, then run it without arguments to see syntax.

Temporary backup location

Version 4.5.6 uses /var/tmp/filewave-serverbackup on Linux and /private/var/tmp/filewave-serverbackup on macOS as the large temporary staging area for database/config archives. This matters on Debian 13, where /tmp is mounted as tmpfs by default and can consume memory. Database/config archive filenames keep the familiar date-based format, for example fwxserver-Config-DB-Jun-10-26--01-00.tar.gz.

Default temporary roots:

• Linux: /var/tmp/filewave-serverbackup
• macOS: /private/var/tmp/filewave-serverbackup

You can override the temporary root per run:

FW_BACKUP_TEMP_ROOT=/path/to/disk-backed-temp ./backup_server_osx_linux.sh run /path/to/backup manual

Or edit the temp_root variable near the top of the script. Use a local disk-backed path with enough free space for the FileWave database/config archive.