On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:31:02 -0500 Harry G <harrycg@earthlink.net> wrote:

OK. Now for a really dumb question. Do I write the scripts in an editor, or from the command line or what? In DOS, you used an editor and named it with an .bat extension. I would suspect you would do some sort of chmod ??? filename, then run it with a ./file.sh?

You don't need any extension in linux, just chmod the file to 700, and it will execute. chmod 700 myscript You can put the first line #!/bin/sh to make it easier for the shell to know it's a script; but a shell script will run without that #!/bin/sh. -- $|=1;while(1){print pack("h*",'75861647f302d4560275f6272797f3');sleep(1); for(1..16){for(8,32,8,7){print chr($_);}select(undef,undef,undef,.05);}}

Harry G wrote:

OK. Now for a really dumb question. Do I write the scripts in an editor, or from the command line or what? In DOS, you used an editor and named it with an .bat extension. I would suspect you would do some sort of chmod ??? filename, then run it with a ./file.sh?

Hi Harry, I came across a script a while ago which I've been using ever since for my backups. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #!/bin/bash # Incremental backup of $DIR # To make a master backup, just delete the snapshot file # NB, the exclude file must not include any blank lines - not even a final empty line. # Implement the curly bracket wrapper below if you want to log # all this (and not see anything directly on the screen). #{ [ $# -eq 0 ] && exit 0 DIR=$1 BUTYPE=Incr # if $DIR/.tar.exclude doesn't exist we need to make it, else tar will refuse to run. # assuming write permission here [ -e $DIR/.tar.exclude ] || touch $DIR/.tar.exclude # if this file exists - and is NOT EMPTY (-s) - then is a Main backup [ -s $DIR/.tar.snapshot ] || BUTYPE=Full tar cvjf \ "/common/backup/`date +%Y%m%d`-$BUTYPE-$DIR.tar.bz2" -X $DIR/.tar.exclude -g $DIR/.tar.snapshot $DIR # } >> ~/backup.log 2>&1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It uses the listed incremental options of tar to make full or incremental backups of a directory dependant on there being a file called .tar.snapshop in the directory of the one you are backing up. To use, save the bit between the lines to a file called bu, chmod to be executable. Change to the parent directory of the one you want to backup and type bu directory_name_to_backup. This will create the backup file in /common/backup/filename_of_backup, change the path as required. The first time this is run it will make a full backup, subsequent times will make an incremental backup. To make another full backup, delete the file .tar.snapshot from the directory. I actually run this script from another script which is executed by cron in the early hours, which basically cd's to a series of directories and performs the bu script on subdirectories. The .tar.exclude file can be used to exclude directories from being backed up, useful for excluding internet caches, etc. regards Steve