GoodnGo.de (R) Zentrale wrote: > Hello Bob, > > do this for tarring: > > #> cd /;tar -c -z -P -V `date` -B -p -f > /where_you_want_to_tar/file_to_tar.tar.gz /var/qmail/users > /var/qmail/control /var/qmail/alias /home/vpopmail/domains -X Maildir new > cur &
Thanks for the advice. I have a few questions... Why -B [ reblock as we read (for reading 4.2BSD pipes)]? How does "-X Maildir new cur" work? My manual page says -X means open the file given in the following argument, and use that as a list of patterns to ignore. My script looks like this (sorry about any word wrap)... #! /bin/sh # Set up some variables BACKUPLIST=./backup.include EXCLUDELIST=./backup.exclude DAILY=`date +%a` DAILY=test SQLBACK=/remotemount/sqldata.$DAILY.sql.z FULLBACK=/remotemount/fullbackup.$DAILY.tar.z # Dump the data to a ziped sql file mysqldump -uroot -p<password> --add-drop-table --add-locks --lock-tables -- all-databases | gzip > $SQLBACK # Tar all the essential config files, plus the documents into a compressed tar tar cpPzf $FULLBACK --exclude-from $EXCLUDELIST `cat $BACKUPLIST` The backup.include file contains a list of files and directories I want backed up. It looks a bit like this... /etc/my.cnf /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf /etc/passwd /etc/group /usr/sbin/fw_iptables /var/qmail /home/vpopmail/domains /var/www The backup.exclude file contains a list of patterns not to back up. It looks like this... */logs/* */backups/* */.Trash/* */.Trash */qmail/man/* */qmail/doc/* */qmail/bin/* Obviously, I've done it this way so that the include and exclude lists can easily be changed without too much danger of messing up the script. -- Nikki Locke, Trumphurst Ltd. PC & Unix consultancy & programming http://www.trumphurst.com/
