[clug] config backups

[Steven Hanley]

rsync to some other location, only if rsync (in verbose mode maybe) copies
any files will it have found changes.

It means you need a copy of the files elsewhere, but hey that can be on a
backup server.

You can even ask rsync to copy the old versions of changed files to a
different location to be tarred up.

	See You
	    Steve


On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 02:18:27PM +1000, Kim Holburn wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to do what I thought was a simple thing to do.  I have a number 
> of systems where I take a backup of the system configuration using tar 
> every so often.
> I want to automate the process by using a script.  What I would like to 
> do is check to see if changes have been made and only backup if changes 
> have been made (or every 10,000km whichever comes first).
> 
> 
> I was testing the tar -d (--diff) option and I discovered it would do 
> everything I wanted except one thing.  It doesn't check for new files 
> added into directories since the tar file was created.  I guess it's 
> hard for tar to know if the archive was created by pointing to a 
> directory or a list of files.
> 
> Now to get what I want I have to make a list of all the files I think 
> should be there and compare it with the list tar gives me.  Whew.  So 
> here's my script.
> 
> Can anyone think of an easier way?
> 
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> # backup if changed
> 
> oldfile="/var/backup/etc.tgz"
> 
> save-it () {
>   cd etc
>   tar -czf "$oldfile" .
> }
> 
> if tar --exclude-from /etc/tar.exclusions --wildcards  -dzf "$oldfile" 
> ; then
>   tar -tzf "$oldfile" |sed -e 's#/$##'| sort >/tmp/tar.list.$$
>   find /etc|cut -c6- | grep -v -x -F /etc/tar.exclusions | sort 
> >/tmp/find.list.$$
>   if [ "`diff -bBU0 /tmp/find.list.$$ /tmp/tar.list.$$ |grep '^-[^-]'| 
> wc -l`" -gt 0 ]; then
>     echo "New file(s) found: "
>     diff -bBU0 /tmp/find.list.$$ /tmp/tar.list.$$ |grep '^-[^-]'
>     save-it
>   fi
> #  rm /tmp/find.list.* /tmp/tar.list.*
> else
>   save-it
> fi
> 
> 
> Kim
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