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Backup script from Jon Mills

18 January 2007 - 1 comment

ibiblio colleague and systems guru John Mills writes:

Here’s the script, called backup.sh:

[bash]
#! /bin/bash

# Definitions
DISK=disk1s1
DIR_NAME=jonmills
SOURCE=/Users/${DIR_NAME}/
DEST=/Volumes/Backup/${DIR_NAME}/
EXCLUDE=/var/log/backup/excludes.${DIR_NAME}

# Mount a disk by hand with disktool
/usr/sbin/disktool -m ${DISK}

# Wait for the disk to spin up, or else this won’t work
sleep 10

# Copy the files with rsync
/usr/bin/rsync -av \
–delete \
–delete-excluded \
–exclude-from=${EXCLUDE} \
${SOURCE} \
${DEST}

# Unmount the disk manually with disktool
/usr/sbin/disktool -u ${DISK}
[/bash]

crontab looks like this:

[code]
#
# min hour mday month wday command

# Run the script at 4:30 AM and mail me the log
30 4 * * * ~/.backup.sh 2>&1 | mail -s "Backup Log - `date`" _____@gmail.com
[/code]

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