Snapshot helper scripts

[Peter]

Hello there,

What are snapshots?

They are a way to create an "image" of some virtualservers settings.
They contain all the permissions, users, channels and server settings. The only thing they
do not contain is the files upload to the server (since that could be too much data ).

They are useful as a backup, or when you want to migrate your nicely configured server
to some new location. Also they can be used to provide an "example setup" that can be
imported anywhere and then changed from there.

What can I find here?

The serverquery has two commands, serversnapshotcreate and serversnapshotdeploy that can be used to obtain and to deploy a snapshot. The "problem" is you need to copy&paste the (usually pretty long) output of serversnapshotcreate and paste that as parameter to serversnapshotdeploy.

To make this process easier, I wrote two (bash) scripts. The pullsnapshot.sh script will retrieve a snapshot from the server that you specify, for example like this:

./pullsnapshot.sh serveradmin 123213123ggadsa213 voice.teamspeak-systems.de 10011 public_server_snapshot.txt 1

The first three parameters (username, password and host) are required, the last three are optional, the usage is:

Usage: ./pullsnapshot.sh username password host [query_port=10011] [output_file=snapshot.txt] [virtual server ID=1]

The putsnapshot.sh is very similar, the usage is the same, except that the file is now the input_file.

Hopefully somebody finds this useful

[PV-Patrick]

Have these been updated for use with RC1?

[dante696]

They work with beta1 up to rc1 server yes. There was only a typo in on of these files.

[s4v4n4]

Hello Peter,

I have 2 ts3 servers running on 2 virtual private servers.

On the server A I have a lot of channels and settings and i want to copy this to the server B on a different VPS.

How can I copy all the settings from server a to server b?

I don't know how to use your script.

Can you do a step by step for me?

Regards.

s4v4n4

[dante696]

An example is given above :-/

Use the console on linux to start that script with parameters or use cygwin on a windows based machine.

Start the pullsnapshot.sh with your paramters > now you ve got a txt file
Start the pullsnapshot.sh with new parameters (new address or virtual server as an example) > snapshot got applied on your second server.

[rindorbrot]

Script doesn't work for me.

Server version is rc1

console always says: target file already exists

but of course there is not a .txt file in the directory.
there is just an file with the VServer ID i've given as parameter in the dirctory, but this file doesn't have an extension.
so in my case (I want to save sid= 8) the file's name is just "8".

are you sure the script is 100% working?
or do you have an idea how I can fix my problem?
t i a

[dante696]

Yes we are sure, that it works.
Please show us your command, you use for that.

[rindorbrot]

ok, I've made a screenshot of the console:


and the second time I try the command, it says "file already exists"
but I found the file in the directory, but it was just an empty .txt file

btw: I use cygwin

[Peter]

Hey,

the output "nc: command not found" means you are missing the utility "netcat", which provides a binary called "nc"; which is used by the script. In short: install netcat.

[rindorbrot]

Thank you very much Peter!
now it worked. nice script

[SilentStorm]

[email protected]:~$ ./pullsnapshot.sh serveradmin locDemoPw 127.0.0.1
Invalid number of lines from snapshot retrieval, aborting
View snapshot.txt for details
[email protected]:~$ cat snapshot.txt
TS3
Welcome to the TeamSpeak 3 ServerQuery interface, type "help" for a list of commands and "help <command>" for information on a specific command.
[email protected]:~$

Thats all that happens for me. Can't seem to get a snapshot even though if I do it myself it works just fine.

[email protected]:~$ telnet 127.0.0.1 10011
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
Escape character is '^]'.
TS3
Welcome to the TeamSpeak 3 ServerQuery interface, type "help" for a list of commands and "help <command>" for information on a specific command.
login serveradmin locDemoPw
error id=0 msg=ok
use 1
error id=0 msg=ok
serversnapshotcreate
permid=i_channel_needed_delete_power permvalue=75 permskip=0 permnegated=0|permid=i_client_needed_talk_power permvalue=10 permskip=0 permnegated=0|permid=i_ft_needed_file_download_power permvalue=70 permskip=0 permnegated=0|permid=i_ft_needed_file_browse_power permvalue=70 permskip=0 permnegated=0|end_flat|channel_client_flat  end_flat|end_permissions
error id=0 msg=ok
quit
error id=0 msg=ok
Connection closed by foreign host.
[email protected]:~$

[Kiste_Becks]

with the 3.0.0 server i can still pull the snapshot, but importing it in another teamspeak server does not work:
worked with rc1.

bash putsnapshot.sh serveradmin PASSWORD localhost

Echo unable to apply the snapshot
This is what we got as answer to the commands use, login, serversnapshotdeploy, quit:
TS3
Welcome to the TeamSpeak 3 ServerQuery interface, type "help" for a list of commands and "help <command>" for information on a specific command.
error id=0 msg=ok
error id=0 msg=ok
error id=1538 msg=invalid\sparameter
error id=0 msg=ok

[dante696]

error id=1538 msg=invalid\sparameter
This can happen, when your "hash=SoK2DVyGPI6hvQWozamFKUBkvWA=" is not correct or when another parameter is incorrect.

Hint: Don't forget to convert a snapshot from a linux server to windows

[Kiste_Becks]

whats the hash for anyway?

the hash is handled by the put/pullsnapshot script. the only parameters for both scripts that are needed are username/password/host
the others are optional.

[dante696]

I answered here