Chris, Sorry if this has been mentioned before but have you tried sbackup?
Regards, Tony. On 03/06/11 14:49, Chris Rowson wrote: > I promise to stop spamming the list now! Final draft. > > I know the email component should be put into a function but I'm a bad > man and didn't do it! > > Just added an extra section that checks to make sure that tar didn't > throw an error code for some reason when it exited. > > Chris > > > BACKUPDIR="/home/username/backup" > WHATTOBACKUP="/var/www" > SERVERNAME="servername" > BACKUPADMIN="[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>" > MESSAGE="/tmp/message.txt" > > if [ -d $BACKUPDIR -a -d $WHATTOBACKUP ] *#make sure the source & dest > dirs exist* > then > *#backup the directory* > /bin/tar -cpzf $BACKUPDIR/`date > +%a"-"%d"-"%b"-"%Y"-"`backup.tar.gz $WHATTOBACKUP > RESULT=$? *#grab the tar exit code* > if [ $RESULT -eq 0 ] *#tar will return non-zero if an error > occurs. If we have a 0 exit code continue* > then > > *#then remove anything over 7 days old* > find $BACKUPDIR/*.tar.gz -mtime +7 -exec rm -f {} \; > > * #And let us know what happened* > SUBJECT="Backup Completed" > TO=$BACKUPADMIN > echo "Backup of $SERVERNAME completed" >> $MESSAGE > echo "Result of backup" >> $MESSAGE > echo "`ls -alt` $BACKUPDIR" >> $MESSAGE > /usr/bin/mail -s "$SUBJECT" "$TO" < $MESSAGE > rm $MESSAGE > exit > > else > *#send a mail if tar failed* > SUBJECT="Backup Failure" > TO=$BACKUPADMIN > echo "Backup of $SERVERNAME failed" >> $MESSAGE > echo "Unable to create tar archive. Tar exit code was > $RESULT" >> $MESSAGE > /usr/bin/mail -s "$SUBJECT" "$TO" < $MESSAGE > rm $MESSAGE > exit > > fi > else > *#if backup dir does not exist, tell us* > SUBJECT="Backup Failure" > TO=$BACKUPADMIN > echo "Error backing up $SERVERNAME" >> $MESSAGE > echo "One of the following directories is missing: $BACKUPDIR > $WHATTOBACKUP " >> $MESSAGE > echo "Date: `date`" >> $MESSAGE > /usr/bin/mail -s "$SUBJECT" "$TO" < $MESSAGE > rm $MESSAGE > fi > > -- Tony Arnold, Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security, Fax: +44 (0) 705 344 3082 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL. Email: [email protected] -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
