Hey, I'm looking for some help on my little backup script for my server. I'm not a real savvy scripter so please bare with me :) I googled around awhile back and put together a bu script that has served my purpose well until now. It's just a few lines as you will see and I use it with cron to make a cdrw every morning at 3am.
Now the info on my server is starting to outgrow just on cdrw (jpgs and such) so I would like to know how I can modify my script to be able to exclude either certain files or directories. I imagine that sed would be involved, but I don't completely understand that tool so I'm hoping that someone might be able to give me some pointers and maybe even explain how the code will work in that setting. Well, here's what I've got now: #!/bin/bash # # create daily backup of essential files # DATA="/var" CONFIG="/etc" # set $(date) # # daily full backup: # tar -cvf "/mnt/backup/data/df$2$3.tgz" $DATA # tar -cvf "/mnt/backup/config/cf$2$3.tgz" $CONFIG # # make iso image and burn it to disk: mkisofs -o /tmp/backup.iso /mnt/backup/* # cdrecord -v blank=fast dev=0,2,0 speed=2 -eject /tmp/backup.iso rm -f /tmp/backup.iso rm -f /mnt/backup/data/* rm -f /mnt/backup/config/* In this setting, I can just add all the directories that I want to back up, but it would be much simpler to add just the parent directories and then exclude *.jpg for example or maybe a whole child directory. Thanks a bunch for any help! Mike -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrake.com ============================================================<
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