E-Mail with Config DB

[hellweiss]

Here's a little Script I copied from some Example Sites and added some Code. It sends an E-Mail with the attached Config DB.
It's provided as it is and it works for me. So as always, no warranties. Perhaps it will be useful for someone.

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys
import smtplib
import time
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.mime.image import MIMEImage
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase
from email import Encoders

HOSTNAME = 'freenas.local' 
SERVER = 'your.mailserver.local'
FROM = 'root@' + HOSTNAME
TO = 'your_mail@localdomain'
SUBJECT = 'Config DB of ' + HOSTNAME
TEXT = 'The Config DB is from ' + time.asctime()
FILENAME = '/data/freenas-v1.db'

#
msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['Subject'] = SUBJECT
msg['From'] = FROM
msg['To'] = TO

#
part0 = MIMEText(TEXT, 'plain')

#
part1 = MIMEBase('application', "octet-stream")
fp = open(FILENAME, 'rb')
part1.set_payload( fp.read() )
fp.close()
Encoders.encode_base64(part1)
part1.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment; filename="%s"' % FILENAME)

#
msg.attach(part0)
msg.attach(part1)

# 
s = smtplib.SMTP(SERVER)
s.sendmail(FROM, TO, msg.as_string())
s.quit()

 

[ProtoSD]

Very nice! Thanks!

 

[ProtoSD]

Just a note of caution, the database contains account and password information for your system & users, email is NEVER secure!

Use caution if you do this.

 

[Stephens]

Thanks for the warning. In Windows, I'd RAR it with a strong password before e-mailing it. I'm not sure what the FreeBSD equivalent of that would be. I looked at gzip, which I thought was the common method of compression on *NIX but it doesn't seem to support passwords. RAR also supports recovery records so if the archive gets slightly corrupted, it can still be recovered.