Tape Backup Scripts

AS ALWAYS: NO WARRANTY AT ALL!

USE IT AS EXAMPLE IF YOU WANT OR USE IT IN PRODUCTION BUT DONT BLAME ME FOR ANY PROBLEMS. THIS IS SUPPLIED AS-IT-IS AND NOTHING MORE. IF YOU DONT ACCEPT THIS REMOVE ALL YOUR COPIES OF THAT AND DO NOT USE IT.

(otherwise have fun :))

The script backup.sh is a wrapper for the backup-tape.sh script. The latter is doing a "tar" to /dev/tape. It's designed to be easy to adapt. This version works on the directory /root. Currently you have to edit all files if you want to change this. In backup-tape.sh you find a list of backup-jobs. Each job has a name. So do a backup job, run "backup.sh ". This wrapper cares about logfiles and drops a mail to "root".

The logfiles of backup-tape.sh are parsed, i.e. the number of files on which verify failed is calculated. finally, a mail with status messages and so on is sent out.

This mail looks i.e. so:

	-----------------------------------------------------------
	
	
	Backup started at Sun Dec  3 15:32:46 CET 2000
	
	tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
	tar: Removing leading `/' from link names
	Total bytes written: 80711680 (77MB, 381kB/s)
	
	real    3m27.430s
	user    0m4.350s
	sys     0m10.600s
	tape access finished at Sun Dec  3 15:36:31 CET 2000
	
	Verify operation succeeded of    1233 files.
	
	backup finished at Sun Dec  3 15:36:31 CET 2000

To restore, change to a empty directory (or / if you're sure :)) and do a:
tar -xpvf /dev/tape

The script backup-session.sh is a wrapper for backup.sh. It's like an example how to run it in an own session (this works even if the shell get's destroyed or so to make it more fail safe). I tried to implement a real nice error handling, that's why that stuff looks so complex (for a simple tar wrapper) and easy to adapt to your local setup. Read the scripts for more informations.

 Name                    Last modified      Size  Description
 Parent Directory                             -   
 Changes                 20-Nov-2001 08:36  246   
 Makefile                03-Dec-2000 17:11  581   
 backup-session.sh       03-Dec-2000 18:06  538   
 backup-tape.sh          26-Sep-2004 22:41  6.8K  
 backup.sh               26-Sep-2004 22:47  5.4K