Craig,

that was nice of you. I will be looking at those very closely.

thanks,

mike h


Craig White wrote:

>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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