Backups completely filling root drive.

[Larry Alkoff]

Hi Tony.  Yes I tried it late today.  It took nearly 4 hours to transfer 
11.5 gigs but that was onto a virgin disk.  So I'm quite happy with it.

I greatly simplified the script - it's below.

Larry

root at kinda bin # cat backmost
#!/bin/bash
# lba: backmost - use rsync to update a hard disk


# Variables:
#TESTING=--dry-run
TESTING=
MIRROR=/mnt/mirror
# TEE=2>&1 |tee >>/var/log/mirror.log
TEE='tee >>/var/log/mirror.log'


# make sure we're running as root
if [ `/usr/bin/id -u` != 0 ]; then { /bin/echo "Sorry only root can do 
this.  Exiting..."; exit 1; } fi

         # Only -n parameter allowed
         #if [ ! $1 = "-n" ]; then
         #       echo Bad parameter.  Aborting!
         #       exit 1
         #fi

# Test to make sure both source and target are specified and are 
directories:
if [ ! "$1" -o ! "$2" -o ! -d "$1" -o ! -d "$2" ]; then
         echo Syntax: syncdir[n] source_dir/ target_dir/
         echo Both must be directories.  Aborting!
         exit 1
fi

# Test to make sure each directory parameter ends with an '/'.
         ## if [ ! `echo $1 |egrep '\/$'` -o ! `echo $2 |egrep '\/$'` ]; 
then    This doesn't work - binar
         # y operator required.  Why?

#if [ ! `echo $1 |egrep '\/$'` ] || [ ! `echo $2 |egrep '\/$'` ]; then
#       echo You must end both directory names with a / backslash. 
Aborting!
#       exit 1
#fi

mv /var/log/backmost.log /var/log/backmost.log~

# Does not include lost+found/ media/ mnt/ proc/ sys/ tmp/ srv??/ dev??/
EXCLUDE="--exclude dev/ --exclude list+found/ --exclude media/ --exclude 
mnt/ \
         --exclude proc/ --exclude sys/ --exclude tmp/ --exclude srv/"
# note: --exclude is relative to the source path.  Above works!

echo Backup is quiet but logged in /var/log/backmost.log.
echo Please wait for ending beep ...

# This uses -n for testing:
#rsync -uaHcv -n  --delete $EXCLUDE $1 $2 >>/var/log/backmost.log

rsync -uaHcv     --delete $EXCLUDE $1 $2 >>/var/log/backmost.log

beep            # say we done
exit





-- 
Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX
Using Thunderbird on Linux