Hi James, > > I've attached a rewritten, but logically similar script you can > try...or not :) DISCLAIMER: it is untried - I don't have a > tape-equipped Linux system to test on! I like scripting and your > approach is a fairly common and relaxed way to run a backup. Not > needing to do "hot" backups of MySQL is a luxury! Anyway, have a look > at the script and feel free to contact me with any questions, or hit > the list up for feedback. >
I removed the /sys folder from the script that I wrote and everything went fine. I have not tried your script rewrite fully yet as we had a number of other disasters today and time was against me but I will try it as soon as I can. > > For the scripting gurus on the list, yes, I know there are many > short-hand notations I can use to streamline things, but I wanted to > keep it mostly readable while providing some portability/extensibility > to the script. Actually, I really appreciated your elegant rewrite of my original and I have learned a lot from that. I really must get smarter when writing these things. My problem is that I will start with a couple of lines and then keep tweaking it and next thing I know I have a monster written in the form I displayed. That means I should pre-plan what I am attempting to do and then write the script more elegantly. Thanks again for taking the time to give me a lesson in better coding/scripting. Regards, Rick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
