On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Oliver Ignacio wrote: > Hey Ben, > Thanks for the reply. The DVD Drive is DVD +/- RW, but the media that > I'm using is a DVD+RW. I'd try using mondo, but I don't know enough > about linux to even know how to make the script for for that. The script > was written by a co-worker of mine, but has left to company for a > different job, so now I'm here trying to figure out how all of this > works. Okay, mondo is great! I believe that I installed it from Dag's yum repository, but I can't remember for sure. If nothing else, the instructions on http://www.mondorescue.org were easy to follow, as I recall. I'm backing up to DVD+RW media, as I mentioned before. I run into a snag about every two weeks due to dvdrecord issues, but for the most part it's stable. I'm posting my script below. Please be gentle, it's the result of a lot of trial and error... :) ------------------------- #!/bin/bash # bash shell script to do a full backup to DVD+RW # 2 June 2004 - Benjamin J. Weiss # # This script does a full backup of non-temporary filesystems # # Options used for the mondoarchive command below: # -O : Do a backup, not a verify. # F : Don't write to a Floppy disk # r : Use a DVD # -s 4400m : Keep it to 4.4 gig, for safety sake # -d /dev/scd0 : Use the DVD burner # -l GRUB : The bootloader that we're using # -f /dev/sda : The drive that the boot loader is on # -E "path" : Directories to exclude from the backup. # modified path so that mondoarchive can find mindi, etc PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin RESULT=failure DATE=`date` EMAIL=benjamin@xxxxxxxxxx # sometimes mondo gets hung up if the tape wasn't # ready when it executed, so we kill any # existing processes while ps -axc | grep mondoarchive; do pkill mondoarchive && echo killed mondoarchive process done #for now, the only way to blank the dvd is to format it /usr/local/bin/dvd+rw-format -force /dev/scd0 # now to the backup /usr/sbin/mondoarchive -OFr -s 4400m -d /dev/scd0 -l GRUB -f /dev/sda \ -E "/tmp /dev /mnt /proc" && RESULT=success TEXT="orion backup for $DATE status: $RESULT" echo $TEXT > /tmp/orion-backup mutt -s "$TEXT" $EMAIL < /tmp/orion-backup #bring the DVD tray back in mount /mnt/cdrom #unmount the dvd so that it can be swapped umount /mnt/cdrom #rm -f /tmp/orion-backup # set path back to what cron expects PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin -------------------- HTH, Ben -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
