[Novalug] Re: [Dclug] backup/mirror script

[Angelo Bertolli]

Eric V. Smith wrote:
> Angelo Bertolli wrote:
>> Eric V. Smith wrote:
>>> Remember that dirvish _is_ a wrapper around rsync.  It does many of 
>>> the things you're doing in your script, and many more.
>>
>> Wow, ok... how about I rephrase my question:  I need help with bash 
>> scripting, will you take a look at the bash part of my script and 
>> give me some tips?  ;)
>
> Sorry, not me.  I'm just trying to point you in a direction that might 
> save you some time.

That's fine.  Thanks.  I'm actually glad for the comments about Dirvish, 
but I still wanted to see if I could get an answer to the original 
question. :p  I started out just using a one-liner rsync command for the 
longest time as an alias, then I moved to a script.  Now I'm trying to 
make one script that will let me do more than one machine.

>
>> By the way, have you done a bare-metal recovery of a system using 
>> Dirvish?
>
> No.  I'm a believer in installing the base OS, restoring the system's 
> configuration, then recovering user files.  Only the latter uses dirvish. 
Maybe that's good enough.  Just install a base OS, and tell Dirvish to 
restore, and it'll do the rest?  Does  it let you change the rsync 
options?  Also, I wouldn't want it to backup [so it won't restore] /tmp, 
/proc, /var/tmp, or /sys, and now with newer kernels /dev.  Actually it 
shouldn't backup /var/run either, but I've noticed that things don't 
always follow FHS exactly ;)

Angelo


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