Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 16:05:53 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Karen Donathan <donathan@gwhs.kana.k12.wv.us> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup question Message-ID: <20040609150553.GA81647@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040609102723.H167@gwhs.kana.k12.wv.us> References: <20040609102723.H167@gwhs.kana.k12.wv.us>
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On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 10:29:27AM -0400, Karen Donathan wrote:
> What is the best way to back up the html directory? We do not have a
> tape drive. Is there a way to have an automated .tar file created and
> sent as email so I could save it on another server? Any help would be
> great!
Yeah. This sort of thing is easy to do with a very small shell
script. From your specifications, something like this will do the
job:
#!/bin/sh
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin ; export PATH
htmldir=/usr/local/www/data
recipient="somebody@example.com"
today=$(date +%Y%m%d)
tar -cvjf - ${htmldir} | uuencode backup-${today}.tar.bz2 | \
mail -s "Backup of ${htmldir} on ${today}" ${recipient} \
>>/var/log/backup.log 2>&1
Save that to a file, make it executable and run it out of root's
crontab on a daily basis:
@daily /usr/local/bin/mybackupscript
(be sure you understand the difference between /etc/crontab and
/var/cron/tabs/root, and how to use crontab(1) correctly: do *not*
feed /etc/crontab into the crontab command.)
The recipient should use procmail or similar to feed the backup
messages into uudecode and so extract the compressed tar file.
Cheers,
Matthew
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