hi guys, i found a rsync backup script that will perform a 7 day incremental backup of the /home directory but the example is based on a remote server,. my scenario is that the /home directory will be backed up using an external hard drive attached to the local machine. i already formatted this drive and named the partition /backup, however i did not auto mount it using fstab, is it advisable to auto mount it? the following is the copy of the script i found and as you can see i already made some editing but i don't know if it will work or not, particularly on the rsync portion, i'm not much of a programmer. thanks in advance.
#!/bin/sh BDIR=/home # Remote directory on backup server BACKUP_HOME=/backup # the name of the backup server BACKUPDIR=`date +%A` OPTS="--force --ignore-errors --delete --backup -backup-dir=$BACKUP_HOME/$BACKUPDIR -av" export PATH=$PATH:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin # Dump output to backup file date > /var/log/backup.$BACKUPDIR.log # the following line clears the last week's incremental directory [ -d /tmp/emptydir ] || mkdir /tmp/emptydir rsync --delete -a /tmp/emptydir/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:$BACKUP_HOME/$BACKUPDIR/ rmdir /tmp/emptydir # now the actual transfer rsync $OPTS $BDIR [EMAIL PROTECTED]:$BACKUP_HOME/current >> /var/log/backup.$BACKUPDIR.log
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