this is an excellent script. on Redhat, it is asking me for a password. how can i deal with that.

I believe it is the == that is not working. Obviously this should mean equal to but for some reason I just get an error. I have read around and people have stated to use the -eq instead of the == but this is only for numbers and I have tried this.

The statement below is what I have added for testing purposes. I have put the result at the bottom. I am completely baffled!

ead #This is to cause an error in the script

if [ "$?" -eq "0" ]; then
echo “This is good before $?”
else
echo “This is bad before $?”
fi

### Find out if ftp backup failed or not ###
if [ "$?" -eq "0" ]; then
rm -f $BACKUP/*
echo “All Good $?”
else
T=/tmp/backup.fail
echo “Date: $(date)”>$T
echo “Hostname: $(hostname)” >>$T
echo “Backup failed” >>$T
sendmail “BACKUP FAILED” “$EMAILID” <$T
rm -f $T
echo "ALL Bad $?"
fi

if [ "$?" -eq "0" ]; then
echo "This is good after $?"
else
echo "This is bad after $?"
fi

Result from this is:
test.sh: 42: ead: not found
This is bad before 1
All Good 0
This is good after 0

I am completely stumped. Any ideas? Thanks

Casey

Thanks for the above. I have implemented this and it has been working fine for many months now.

Just recently however I have noticed a problem with the last part of the code. I am not sure if this has been going on all the time or not, but I have was just doing a general check up on the backups and noticed an error.

The section below is the culprit:
### Find out if ftp backup failed or not ###
if [ "$?" == "0" ]; then
rm -f $BACKUP/*
else
T=/tmp/backup.fail
echo “Date: $(date)”>$T
echo “Hostname: $(hostname)” >>$T
echo “Backup failed” >>$T
sendmail “BACKUP FAILED” “$EMAILID” <$T
rm -f $T
fi

I actually get an error:
[: 83: ==: unexpected operator

As you can see I have amended the mail part to sendmail as the other one was not working and hence this is the reason why I spotted the other problem.

Do you know why this is happening? I have unbuntu 8.04.

Any help much appreciated. Thanks

Casey

# Store backup path
BACKUP="/backup/$NOW"

Append:

EXCLUDE_CONF="/root/exclude.files.conf"

Find Line:

# Backup websever dirs
$TAR -zcvf ${BACKUP}/${BFILE} "${DIRS}"

Update it as follows:

# Backup websever dirs
$TAR  --exclude-from=${EXCLUDE_CONF} -zcvf ${BACKUP}/${BFILE} "${DIRS}"

Save and close the file. Create/root/exclude.files.conf file:

vi /root/exclude.files.conf

To exclude all log files and a directory called /home/vivek/mp3 enter:

/var/www/logs/*.logs
/home/vivek/mp3

Thanks for the great script.

Is there anyway to add an exclude directory list in this script? Thanks

Kind regards

Casey

resync command will be best if you have limited bandwidth on backup server.

Also lftp is also support to incremental backup in between the linux servers which support only ftp access in to it.

HTH

Depending on your needs ZAmanda is very nice. Like any product the configuration took a little to understand, but it wasn’t bad, and I believe they also have a GUI now. We liked it over Baccula because it uses tar or dump.
http://www.zmanda.com/

I didn’t find the O’Reilly book, “Backup and Recovery” very helpful. It’s too high level, and the good stuff is all on their website or available online elsewhere.