Re: backup script modification help
On Jun 4, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Wei Chen wrote: I recommend rdiff-backup. It does incremental backups. It is easy to use and has powerful statistics displaying functions. I personally use it. It is in the repository so easy to install. There is detailed document and sample commands on its Website http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ backupninja is a decent front-end for rdiff-backup and other niceties, like things that can do backups/dumps of live mysql databases, etc. As its readme states, it can "configure and coordinate many different backup utilities". It's very "server-esqe" in that you have an /etc/backup.d directory with your various backup routines and it runs them in succession and reports success/failure on whatever schedule you choose. Although I've never used this piece of it, it also has a console helper called ninjahelper to help create the configuration files... they were simple enough that I've never needed to do that. I've found it very useful. Hope that helps. -- Nate Duehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backup script modification help
On 6/4/07, Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Haines Brown wrote: > I use cron to do a periodic full backup to an external USB drive that > I've named "mirror". The script used is: > > find / -print | egrep -v "^/media/mirror|^/proc" | cpio -pdmuv > /media/mirror/"$1" 2>&1 | cat -vt > > Since installing Etch, this script has not worked well because it does > not like to backup the /sys directory. Actually, backing up /sys > dangerous). So I'd like to modify the script to block cpio from doing > /sys as it avoids /proc, but not sure how. Help would be appreciated. > Try backup2l. Very simple backup script that automates this for you and makes incremental daily backups. I recommend rdiff-backup. It does incremental backups. It is easy to use and has powerful statistics displaying functions. I personally use it. It is in the repository so easy to install. There is detailed document and sample commands on its Website http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ -- Cheers, Wei http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backup script modification help
Mike et al, Thanks for the fix and the suggestions. I understood the script just to the extent I could mess it up ;-( -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backup script modification help
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 07:15:49AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: >> I use cron to do a periodic full backup to an external USB drive that >> I've named "mirror". The script used is: >> >> find / -print | egrep -v "^/media/mirror|^/proc" | cpio -pdmuv >> /media/mirror/"$1" 2>&1 | cat -vt >> >> Since installing Etch, this script has not worked well because it does >> not like to backup the /sys directory. Actually, backing up /sys >> dangerous). So I'd like to modify the script to block cpio from doing >> /sys as it avoids /proc, but not sure how. Help would be appreciated. > > That's why I use tar. I have an include file and an exclude file and > changing things like this is very easy. That's why I use rsync. I have an include file and an exclude file and changing things like this is very easy. Besides it is faster and more flexible than tar. YNMV, Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGZBePC1NzPRl9qEURAnS0AJ0Zn38KqQq1bENJed7T2hBjxRKbngCfY9w3 l8i2cpAf1XZkhM1o3VcBWCw= =fnka -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backup script modification help
Haines Brown wrote: > I use cron to do a periodic full backup to an external USB drive that > I've named "mirror". The script used is: > > find / -print | egrep -v "^/media/mirror|^/proc" | cpio -pdmuv > /media/mirror/"$1" 2>&1 | cat -vt You could try "find -xdev" which prevents find from entering other mounted filesystems. This should at least prevent find from entering the /media/mirror-directory, though you still have to grep it out since it prints the directory-name. Greetings, Mike -- Michael Hansen - http://www.pfna.de/ Monheim / Germany -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backup script modification help
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 07:15:49AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > I use cron to do a periodic full backup to an external USB drive that > I've named "mirror". The script used is: > > find / -print | egrep -v "^/media/mirror|^/proc" | cpio -pdmuv > /media/mirror/"$1" 2>&1 | cat -vt > > Since installing Etch, this script has not worked well because it does > not like to backup the /sys directory. Actually, backing up /sys > dangerous). So I'd like to modify the script to block cpio from doing > /sys as it avoids /proc, but not sure how. Help would be appreciated. That's why I use tar. I have an include file and an exclude file and changing things like this is very easy. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backup script modification help
Haines Brown wrote: > I use cron to do a periodic full backup to an external USB drive that > I've named "mirror". The script used is: > > find / -print | egrep -v "^/media/mirror|^/proc" | cpio -pdmuv > /media/mirror/"$1" 2>&1 | cat -vt > > Since installing Etch, this script has not worked well because it does > not like to backup the /sys directory. Actually, backing up /sys > dangerous). So I'd like to modify the script to block cpio from doing > /sys as it avoids /proc, but not sure how. Help would be appreciated. > How about: find / -print | egrep -v "^/media/mirror|^/proc|^/sys" | cpio -pdmuv \ /media/mirror/"$1" 2>&1 | cat -vt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backup script modification help
Haines Brown wrote: I use cron to do a periodic full backup to an external USB drive that I've named "mirror". The script used is: find / -print | egrep -v "^/media/mirror|^/proc" | cpio -pdmuv /media/mirror/"$1" 2>&1 | cat -vt Since installing Etch, this script has not worked well because it does not like to backup the /sys directory. Actually, backing up /sys dangerous). So I'd like to modify the script to block cpio from doing /sys as it avoids /proc, but not sure how. Help would be appreciated. Try backup2l. Very simple backup script that automates this for you and makes incremental daily backups. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backup script modification help
On 04 Jun 2007 07:15:49 -0400, Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I use cron to do a periodic full backup to an external USB drive that I've named "mirror". The script used is: find / -print | egrep -v "^/media/mirror|^/proc" | cpio -pdmuv /media/mirror/"$1" 2>&1 | cat -vt Since installing Etch, this script has not worked well because it does not like to backup the /sys directory. Actually, backing up /sys dangerous). So I'd like to modify the script to block cpio from doing /sys as it avoids /proc, but not sure how. Help would be appreciated. I suppose like this find / -print | egrep -v "^/media/mirror|^/proc|^/sys" | cpio -pdmuv /media/mirror/"$1" 2>&1 | cat -vt It would be good if you would understand this command a bit :) Find locates all files and gives list of them. Egrep (or grep) does matching on filenames (-v means inverse), and matches either of /media/mirror, /proc or /sys at beginning of line. Then list of those filenames is passed to cpio and it just archives them. Regards, Atis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
backup script modification help
I use cron to do a periodic full backup to an external USB drive that I've named "mirror". The script used is: find / -print | egrep -v "^/media/mirror|^/proc" | cpio -pdmuv /media/mirror/"$1" 2>&1 | cat -vt Since installing Etch, this script has not worked well because it does not like to backup the /sys directory. Actually, backing up /sys dangerous). So I'd like to modify the script to block cpio from doing /sys as it avoids /proc, but not sure how. Help would be appreciated. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
