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Seeking Nerdvana The Road to Ubuntu - Backup Salvation
Seeking Nerdvana The Road to Ubuntu - Backup Salvation | The Road to Ubuntu - Backup Salvation |
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| by Adam Turner | |
| Monday, 05 November 2007 | |
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Page 4 of 4 After the steep learning curve of developing my local backup script, creating one for FTP proved relatively easy.Featured Whitepaper
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# Source# Destination folder on FTP server### FTP SERVER Login info #### delete oldest folder#rename folderswhile [ $count -gt 1 ]
do old=`expr $count - 1` count=`expr $count - 1`# tarball files in temp folder# make new dir on server, upload tarball, delete temp tarball (-E)lftp -u $FTPU,$FTPP -e "mkdir /${des}/1; cd /${des}/1; mput -E /tmp/backup_${now}.tar.gz; quit" $FTPS
I tried to use "find ${des}/* -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;" to delete old folders, but I couldn't get it to work with lftp. All that was left now was to add the two scripts to crontab (the task scheduler) so they'll run automatically - every 10 minutes to the network drive and every 30 minutes to the FTP site;
10 * * * * /home/adam/Documents/scripts/backup-inprog-hyperspace.shSo that's how I found backup salvation with Ubuntu. While it was a steep learning curve, most of my problems were due to the fact I was using a FAT32 network drive - a legacy from Windows World. Moving to any new OS is always going to present challenges, so I'm not holding a grudge against the penguin. Now we've got this backup problem sorted, hopefully we can get down to business. PREVIOUS POST: The Road to Ubuntu - Backup Hell NEXT POST: The Road to Ubuntu (or Leopard) - screw the OS, move your apps online with Google {moscomment} |
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