[opensuse] Backup Question

10 Sep 2009

      Guys.

I have about twenty boxes I need to back up. I been told that cpio is
go to do that, I currently use tar but by directory by directory
casee, but I am having problems finding a good example of a back up
script. I am looking to make a cpio image of the whole box. Lucky we
have a SAN with storage that will be able to hold the back up.

So far I have come up with this, but I don't think it best. What I
like to ask the group is does anyone have a nice back up script that
can share with me, or can you expand on my script. One more question
can you do exclude with cpio like tar? I am hoping this simple script
can get what I want.

------------------Being Script----------------------------
#!/bin/sh

# functions to call on
remotedir () { mount /backup }
uremotedit () { umount /backup }

# Vars for the
host=`hostname -f`
# this is because the cron runs nightly at midnight we want the day before
dat=`date +%m%d%G -d "1 day ago"`
dat2=`date +%m-%d-%G`

# The meat of the back up

remotedir

if  [ -d == `/backup/ ]
then

       find -d . -print | cpio -ova > /backup/$host.$dat.cpio

else

       logger "System back up failed on $dat2, backup drive didn't mount"

fi

uremotedir

------------------End Script------------------------------
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