why reinvent the wheel? Go to freshmeat.net and type cd backup into the search. cdbkup is the one I picked, it seems to work. I only use it for my MP3 repository though, everything else is just rsynced to multiple systems.
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 21:51, Michael Holt wrote: > 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 > ============================================================< > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... http://www.monkeynoodle.org/resume.html
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