Hey thanks Mark!  Sorry to take so long responding; I forgot to renew my
domain name and wasn't getting any mail - please don't ask :}
thanks again!  mike

> Michael Holt wrote:
>> Hey,
>> I'm looking for some help on my little backup script for my server.  I'm
>> not a real savvy scripter so please bare with me :)
>> I googled around awhile back and put together a bu script that has
>> served
>> my purpose well until now.  It's just a few lines as you will see and I
>> use it with cron to make a cdrw every morning at 3am.
>>
>> Now the info on my server is starting to outgrow just on cdrw (jpgs and
>> such) so I would like to know how I can modify my script to be able to
>> exclude either certain files or directories.  I imagine that sed would
>> be
>> involved, but I don't completely understand that tool so I'm hoping that
>> someone might be able to give me some pointers and maybe even explain
>> how
>> the code will work in that setting.  Well, here's what I've got now:
>
> Michael,
>
> attached you'll find the one i've been using and it works flawlessly. I
> can't remember his name, but it was a gentleman here on the expert list
> that sent me a copy of his and I used his as a guide to cook this one up.
>
> enjoy...
>
> --
> Mark
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R)
> Linux User Since 1996
> Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 & 9.1
> ICQ# 27816299
> #!/bin/sh
> #MAILTO:mdw1982
> # ##########################
> # variables for the program:
> # ##########################
> TAPE=/dev/st0;
> HOME_FILES=/home;
> DOCUMENTS=/mnt/arc_2/Documents;
> WWW=/var/www;
> MAIL=/var/spool/mail;
> DATABASE=/var/lib/mysql;
> MP3=/mnt/mp3;
> LOG_PATH=/home/mdw1982/;
> LOG_DIR=backup_log;
> DATE=$( date +%m-%d-%Y );
>
> # ##########################
> # functions for program    :
> # ##########################
> message(){
>       echo ".........This is the Tape backup program..........";
>       echo "         -------------------------------          ";
>       echo "";
>       echo "I've successfully completed the nightly backup of the system";
>       echo "for $DATE";
>       echo "";
>       echo "The Log file containing the backup's contents has been written";
>       echo "to $LOG_PATH.";
>       echo "............. END OF TRANSMISSION ................";
> }
>
> # does the directory to receive the backup logs exist?
> # if not then we're going to create it...
> checkLog(){
>       for i in $( ls -d /home/mdw1982/* ); do
>               ITEM=$i
>               if [ $ITEM = $LOG_DIR ]
>               then
>                       FOUND=true
>               else
>                       FOUND=false
>               fi
>       done
> }
>
> # ##########################
> # main program                                   :
> # ##########################
>
> # putting all the goodies to the tape
> find /bin /boot /etc /home /root /var /mnt/arc_2/Documents /var/www -print
> | grep -iv "\./var/ftp" | sort | cpio -oaBc -O /dev/tape
>
> # writing out the logfile to disk
> cpio -iBct -I /dev/tape > /home/mdw1982/backup_log/$( date +%m-%d-%Y
> )_bkup.indx
>
>
> # compressing the logfile
> gzip -1 /home/mdw1982/backup_log/$( date +%m-%d-%Y )_bkup.indx
>
> # outputing message to email
> message;
>
> # exiting the program
> exit;
>
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