On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 03:57 -0700, mike hoy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running a webserver and decided to back it up using a crontab.
> 
> But first I need a good shell script for crontab to execute.
> 
> I created this shell script:
> 
> Can someone look at this is give a bit of advice.
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> echo "beginning to copy files..."
> 
> cp -R * /mnt/DesktopBackup/website/
> 
> echo "done copying files..."
> 
> I run this script from inside of my web directory. which is the source 
> of the backup.
> 
> Question: is the -R what allows me to copy folders and their 
> subdirectories?? or is their a better way to do this?
----
it's the way I do it - there is rsync (man rsync)
----
> 
> I have lots of folders within folders within folders... it's a mess.
----
with shell scripts - you need to be really specific about things and not
count on it to know which files/directories you are specifically
referring to...
cp -R /var/www/html/* /mnt/DesktopBackup/website

fwiw - I will include some of my shell scripts for this purpose - I'm
proud of some of them, lately, I've been able to get them done without
asking for help from the list ;-)

# cat /root/scripts/backup.weekly
#!/bin/sh

# separate - simple backup script to backup
# weekly - primarily the configs but a
# simple dump of ldap / dhcpd / named data
# doesn't take much space, whereas the files
# from netatalk and samba are massive

# see companion file backup.mkdir to create the
# directories for this backup

backup=/home/storage/backup

# LDAP
service ldap stop
/usr/sbin/slapcat -l $backup/ldap/data/data.ldif
cp -fpvur /var/lib/ldap/* $backup/ldap/data
cp -fpvur /etc/openldap/* $backup/ldap/config
cp -fpvur /etc/openldap/ldap.conf $backup/ldap/config
cp -fpvur /etc/pam.d/system-auth $backup/ldap/config
cp -fpvur /etc/nsswitch.conf $backup/ldap/config
service ldap start

# BIND
cp -fpvur /etc/named.conf $backup/named/config
cp -fpvur /var/named/* $backup/named/data

# DHCP
cp -fvpur /etc/dhcpd.conf $backup/dhcpd/config
cp -fvpur /var/lib/dhcp/* $backup/dhcpd/data

# SAMBA (config only)
cp -fvpur /etc/samba/* $backup/samba/config

# Netatalk (config only)
cp -fvpur /etc/netatalk/* $backup/netatalk/config

# Sendmail (config only)
cp -fvpur /etc/mail/* $backup/sendmail/config
cp -fvpur /etc/aliases $backup/sendmail/config

# WWW - the web tree
cp -fvpur /etc/httpd $backup/html/config
cp -fvpur /var/www/html/* $backup/html/data
#
# cat /root/scripts/backup.mkdir
#!/bin/sh

base=/home/storage/backup
this[1]=ldap
this[2]=named
this[3]=dhcpd
this[4]=samba
this[5]=netatalk
this[6]=sendmail
this[7]=html

for a in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
do
if [ ! -e "$base/${this[a]}" ]
then mkdir $base/${this[a]}; mkdir $base/${this[a]}/config; \
mkdir $base/${this[a]}/data
fi
done

YMMV

Craig

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