[clug] config backups

[Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au]

Last month's CLUG had an interesting talk  version control
systems, including discussion of how they can be used to
keep track of things like /etc and /home. A nice part of it
is that backups are only made when content is edited.

Antti

-----Original Message-----
From: Kim Holburn [mailto:kim.holburn at anu.edu.au]
Sent: Tuesday, 29 June 2004 2:18 PM
To: CLUG List
Subject: [clug] config backups


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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