Hello, I've been running a script in /etc/cron.daily that tar's the /etc, /home, and /var directories and then gzip's them. After the gzip they are FTP'd to a backup server. I've just had the need to retrieve a file in one of the backups and it turns out they are all corrupt! This is not good. :( [root@hachiroku ~/temp]# gzip -t 01-01-05.home.tar.gz gzip: 01-01-05.home.tar.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated [root@hachiroku ~/temp]# This is the script I am using, maybe there is a problem with it?? Or maybe the corruption is happening during the FTP transfer? =-=-=-=-=-=-= #!/bin/bash # set variables DATE=`date +%m-%d-%y` OLDDATE=`date +%m-%d-%y --date '7 days ago'` # make sure we are executing the following commands from the correct directory cd / # make the /var archive tar -cW --totals --label $DATE.var -f $DATE.var.tar /var gzip -9 -S .gz $DATE.var.tar # make the /etc archive tar -cW --totals --label $DATE.etc -f $DATE.etc.tar /etc gzip -9 -S .gz $DATE.etc.tar # make the /home archive tar -cW --totals --label $DATE.home -f $DATE.home.tar /home gzip -9 -S .gz $DATE.home.tar echo "*** connecting to ftp and uploading files" ftp -n ati-nas-01.ati.local > /var/log/lastbackup << endend user user password cd /linuxbackup/hachiroku pwd bell del $OLDDATE.var.tar.gz del $OLDDATE.etc.tar.gz del $OLDDATE.home.tar.gz put $DATE.var.tar.gz put $DATE.etc.tar.gz put $DATE.home.tar.gz ls quit endend #echo "*** Removing Backup Files" rm -f $DATE.*tar.gz #echo "*** Done" exit 0 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Any ideas would be appreciated! The average size of the compressed /var file is ~68MB. /etc is ~1.5MB. /home is ~50MB. Thanks, Chris. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
