Backuppo

Simple platform to backup a FortiGate appliances through RestAPI

Backuppo is a web-based application created with the simple idea ( for my needs ) of saving a FortiGate configuration using a secure method.

Few things to keep in mind:

• I'm not developer and i have ZERO programming skills, i'm very able to do copy / paste. ( Maybe i can make it appear an "Hello World" message on a linux terminal )
• I used my friend ChatGPT to do that.
• I know, i don't think is a quality code.
• Apparently seems to be working!

Features

• Save a FortiGate configurations in secure mode. RestAPI with HTTPS secure communication
• Schedule a cron to plan when to do the backup. ( Daily, Weekly or Monthly )
• Download the last backupped configuration
• View the job's log
• All the features are able to do done through web interface

I appreciate if someone wants to introduce new features, fixing or something else...

Anyway, if you have the same needs as me, just download and use it!

Tech

• [Apache]
• [PHP]
• [Python]
• [SQLLite]
• [Bootstrap]

Installation

Installation tested on Linux Ubuntu 22.04

Make sure have update the system:

apt update
apt upgrade -y
reboot

Install the dependencies and components:

apt install apache2 php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql
apt install sqlite3 php-sqlite3 dbus python3-pip libapache2-mod-python
pip3 install requests

Enable apache module for run correctly a python script

a2enmod cgi

Clone repository to home folder

apt install git
git clone https://github.com/danieledfr/backuppo-fortigate.git

Configuration

Move the contents into www apache folder

cd backuppo-fortigate/
mv * /var/www

If exist html folder in /var/www then remove

cd /var/www
rm -R html/ ( only if html folder are exist )

Modify Apache index folder

nano /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf
modify DocumentRoot /var/www/html in /var/www
systemctl restart apache2

Make the database

python3 /var/www/cgi-bin/createdb.py

Assign a privileges for the application to write in a various folders

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www

Run

Open your new, fresh, simple, wonderful configuration repository of your FortiGate devices.

http://yourserveripaddress/

Know Issue

If the first time you don't see anything in the Device Page, run this follow:

cd /var/www/cgi-bin
python3 createdb.py

Run ls -lrt in /var/www/cgi-bin and make sure the devices.db file have more then 0B size.

Be careful

This app was not designed to run on a public network, please not expose it.

Development

Want to contribute? Great!

Docker

Maybe one day...

License

MIT

Free Software, Hell Yeah!