backup stratagems

[Teodor Iliescu]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, David J Patrick wrote:

> What do you use ?
>     ..discuss ..

Something I wrote. It works with cd-r's.
If you want to use cd-rws, just add blank=fast, in the cdrecord pipe.

Run it as root, of course.

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#!/usr/bin/ksh

if [ "$USER" != "root" ]
then
	echo You must be root to run this program!
	exit 1
else
	echo "You are logged in as root. Executing program."
	sleep 1
fi

echo "Unmounting /dev/cdrom, if it is mounted:"
umount /dev/cdrom 2> /dev/null

echo "Starting backup..." >> log
echo "Backup started at" `date` by user $USER >> log

echo "Going up to /home/ directory"
cd /home
echo "Starting tarball, excluding oggs..."
tar czvf tiliescu-`date "+%A.%B.%d"`.tar.gz --exclude=*.ogg tiliescu | tee -a `date "+%A.%B.%d"`
mkdir backup
mv tiliescu-`date "+%A.%B.%d"`.tar.gz `date "+%A.%B.%d"` backup && echo "Moved files successfully to backup dir" 

#Let's actually burn the data.

echo Starting real backup of data ; sleep 1
mkisofs -J -R /home/backup | cdrecord dev=0,0,0 speed=16 -eject -v - && echo "Burning of data successfull!" 

if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
	cd -
	echo Burning successfull! >> log
	echo Burning finished at `date` >> log
else
	cd -
	echo Burning failed at `date` >> log
fi

#Let's do a little clean up.
rm -rf /home/backup
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