Here is the text of the scripts that I use that works pretty well. The backup script says what to dump. The dodump script determines where it ends up by the BACKUPDIR variable. I have this set up to a network share that goes to tape later but this could be anything. This does full on Sunday and incremental the rest of the week.
Backup.sh: #!/bin/sh DODUMP=/root/DoDump.sh if [ "$1" == "" ]; then DOW=`/bin/date +'%w'` # echo "WARNING: dump level suggested" else DOW=$1 fi echo "Backup: level=$DOW" echo " `/bin/date`" echo "" $DODUMP $DOW / $DODUMP $DOW /home $DODUMP $DOW /opt $DODUMP $DOW /usr $DODUMP $DOW /var $DODUMP $DOW /boot DoDump.sh: #!/bin/sh DODUMP=/root/DoDump.sh if [ "$1" == "" ]; then DOW=`/bin/date +'%w'` # echo "WARNING: dump level suggested" else DOW=$1 fi echo "Backup: level=$DOW" echo " `/bin/date`" echo "" $DODUMP $DOW / $DODUMP $DOW /home $DODUMP $DOW /opt $DODUMP $DOW /usr $DODUMP $DOW /var $DODUMP $DOW /boot [root@Minerva root]# more DoDump.sh #!/bin/sh # # Usage: DoDump.sh <level> <fsmount> # if [ "$1" == "" ]; then echo "ERROR: dump level is missing" echo "Usage: DoDump.sh <level> <fsmount>" exit 1 fi DUMPLEVEL=$1 if [ "$2" == "" ]; then echo "ERROR: file system mount point is missing" echo "Usage: DoDump.sh <level> <fsmount>" exit 1 fi FSMOUNT=$2 BACKUPDIR=/mnt/backup-share DIRNAME=`/bin/basename $FSMOUNT` if [ "$DIRNAME" == "/" ]; then DIRNAME=root fi DUMPFILE=$BACKUPDIR/$DUMPLEVEL.dump.$DIRNAME.z echo " DUMP: $FSMOUNT ==> $DUMPFILE" /bin/rm -f $DUMPFILE /sbin/dump -$DUMPLEVEL -u -z -f $DUMPFILE $FSMOUNT echo "" -- Don Howard Network Administrator Connected Energy Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.connectedenergy.com I have redhat 7.1 server. Because i have several dictories need to be backup, I want to write a script do it automatically say every Satuerday a 2:00am. is there a way to do that? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
