Re: [rdiff-backup-users] OSX test

[Cornelius Jaeger]

On Aug 31, 2005, at 11:20 AM, Thomas Bettler wrote:

Why not cp -a or whatever on osX?

resource forks, finder meta data, automatic restore, finder bless, remote backups.

here is the script i came up with today.

seems to work.

#!/bin/sh

# admin who receives mail

mailTo="address@hidden"

# server name, no spaces please

server_name="TVMM"

# excludes, this is the list recommended for osx by apple

#excludes="/tmp /var /Volumes /dev /Network /etc /automount /.vol /mach /mach.sym /.DS_Store /.Trashes /TheFindByContentFolder /TheVolumeSettingsFolder"

excludes="/tmp /var /private/var/tmp /Volumes /dev /Network /etc /automount /.vol /mach /mach.sym /.DS_Store /.Trashes /TheFindByContentFolder /TheVolumeSettingsFolder"

# may not handle device files correctly, so better leave them out

exclude_options="--exclude-device-files"

# How long to keep changes. 1M = 1 month

maxage="2W"

# the source volume

src=/

# the destination volume

dst=/Volumes/hd2/

# Which program to invoke

program=rdiff-backup

# Some basic configuration options; see the manual

other_options="--force -v5 --print-statistics --override-chars-to-quote ''"

########################################################

# Perform backup                                       #

########################################################

# Setup what's needed for status reporting.

test -f /var/${server_name}Daily || echo "${server_name} Daily backups" > /var/log/${server_name}Daily

echo "" >>/var/log/${server_name}Daily

echo "${server_name} Daily" `date` >>/var/log/${server_name}Daily

msg="Backup deemed successful."

appendStatus ()

{

   msg="Backup failed."

   echo "   " $1  >>/var/log/${server_name}Daily

}

# Build a bunch of --exclude ... statements and construct

# a number of arguments to send to rdiff-backup.

for i in $excludes; do

   exclude_options="$exclude_options --exclude $i"

done

options="$exclude_options $other_options"

# Make sure there is a valid place to put the data

if [ -e "$dst" ]; then

  if [ ! -d "$dst" ]; then

     echo "Strange: '$dst' exists, but is not a directory"

         appendStatus "Backup on ${server_name} failed $dst exists but is not a directory"

     exit 1

  fi

  echo "found $dst"

else

  mkdir -p $dst

  echo "created $dst"

fi

# Backup

echo "Doing this: $program $options $src $dst"

echo "Backing up $dst"

$program $options $src $dst

# How did it go?

if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then

    # It went well; removing stuff older than maxage

      $program --force --remove-older-than $maxage $dst

      if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then

        echo "Clean-up OK"

      else

        echo "running this failed (during clean-up):"

         echo "$program --force --remove-older-than $maxage $dst"

             appendStatus "Backup on ${server_name} failed to clean up: $program --force remove-older-than $maxage $dst"

      fi   

    echo "recreating the symlinks and volumes from the exclude list"

        cd "$dst"

    echo "cd to $dst"

    ln -s private/etc etc

    ln -s private/var var

    ln -s private/tmp tmp

    mkdir dev Volumes Network

    # bless the System Folder (OSX only), i've excluded this for now, because repeated backups failed with permission errors YMMV

    #echo "blessing the system folder"

    #bless -folder ${dst}System/Library/CoreServices -bootinfo /usr/standalone/ppc/bootx.bootinfo

else

      # It failed; don't clean up

      echo "running this failed:"

      echo "$program $options $src $dst"

        appendStatus "Backup on ${server_name} failed completely: $program $options $src $dst"

fi

if test "$msg" != "Backup deemed successful."

then

# If sendmail is configured on machine the following will send a mail to somebody

mail -s "${server_name} Daily System Backup" $mailTo <<EOF

This message comes from the Backup_Server.sh script on $server_name.

The daily backup of $server_name did not complete successfully.

$msg

Please refer to the /var/log/${server_name}Daily.log for further details.

EOF

fi

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