Subj : small request
To   : Tracker1
From : Angus Mcleod
Date : Sat Dec 11 2004 12:18 pm

  Re: small request
  By: Tracker1 to dove.synchronet.programmi on Sat Dec 11 2004 01:36:00

 > would like a shell script that I can run as my sbbs user, that will...

First, I'd like to suggest that you adopt a UNIX paragigm -- use separate 
scripts.  Then call them as needed.  Rather than have one enormous 
Microsoftian script to do everything.

For backup, something like:

    #!/bin/bash
    DATESTAMP=`/usr/bin/date +%Y%m%d-%H%M`
    ARCHIVE=sbbs-${DATESTAMP}.tgz

    # required -- must be first
    OPTIONS="--create --gzip"

    # other possibly useful options
    [ -f sbbsbackup.exclude ] && OPTIONS="-X sbbsbackup.exclude"
    # OPTIONS="${OPTIONS} --dereference"            # symlinks in or out?
    # OPTIONS="${OPTIONS} --absolute-paths"         # careful!

    # required -- must be last
    OPTIONS="${OPTIONS} --file ${ARCHIVE}"

    /usr/bin/tar ${OPTIONS} /sbbs/ctrl /sbbs/data /sbbs/exec

That will drop a date-stamped .tgz of the three directories in the current 
directory.  Call this script from whatever script you use to cvs updare 
and make.

To restore, just cd into /sbbs and tar xzvf <whatever>.tgz optionally 
first erasing the directories.  

In sbbsbackup.exclude put a list of whatever files (if any) you DON'T want 
backed up, for instance, /sbbs/ctrl/localspy*.sock or whatever.

Modifications may be necessary under non-Slackware.


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