From dexter.psych.umn.edu!rob Thu Jan 13 09:45:39 1994 Received: from VX.CIS.UMN.EDU ([128.101.63.1]) by viz.tamu.edu with SMTP id <12823>; Thu, 13 Jan 1994 09:45:27 -0600 Received: from dexter.psych.umn.edu by VX.CIS.UMN.EDU (PMDF V4.2-13 #2574) id <01H7MOEBZ4EODBI2JS@VX.CIS.UMN.EDU>; Thu, 13 Jan 1994 09:47:05 CDT Received: by dexter.psych.umn.edu; Thu, 13 Jan 94 09:39:53 -0600 Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 09:39:53 -0600 From: Robert Stephens To: sgi-faq@viz.tamu.edu Message-id: <9401131539.AA27404@dexter.psych.umn.edu> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Status: RO I enjoy your SGI faq very much, and I thought the following might be useful to include in the SGI-admin FAQ. These are responses I received after posting for info on how to use crontab to automate a tape backup. I guess you can decide which one works best. Keep up the good work. -----CUT HERE------ >From msweet@Spock.ctr.nawcad.navy.mil Tue Jan 11 18:09:34 1994 Received: from spock.ctr.nawcad.navy.mil by dexter.psych.umn.edu; Tue, 11 Jan 94 18:09:34 -0600 Received: by Spock.ctr.nawcad.navy.mil (920330.SGI/921111.SGI.AUTO.ANONFTP) for rob@dexter.psych.umn.edu id AA19557; Tue, 11 Jan 94 19:14:03 -0500 Date: Tue, 11 Jan 94 19:14:03 -0500 From: msweet@Spock.ctr.nawcad.navy.mil (Michael Sweet) Posted-Date: Tue, 11 Jan 94 19:14:03 -0500 Message-Id: <9401120014.AA19557@Spock.ctr.nawcad.navy.mil> To: Robert Stephens Subject: Re: Automated backups with crontab? Status: RO I have a script that uses BRU to do backups every night; I've added it to the bottom of this message. In the root crontab file, add the line: 0 1 * * * /bin/csh /usr/local/bin/backup.nightly This will run the backup script 'backup.nightly' at 1am every night using the CShell program. Hope this helps! ----CUT-HERE----CUT-HERE----CUT-HERE----CUT-HERE----CUT-HERE----CUT-HERE---- #!/bin/csh -f # # Nightly backup script for SGI workstations... # # Set the 'BUP_DIRS' variable to the directories you wish backed up... # Set the 'INFORM' variable to the users to inform on error... # # Run nightly @ 1:00 am... # set BUP_DIRS = "/usr/local /netusr /usr/data" set INFORM = "msweet" # # Back everything up to tape; we use the 'no-rewind' device... # # If an error occurs, inform necessary user(s)... # bru -cBZf /dev/nrtape -n /usr/local/bin/last.backup $BUP_DIRS # # If an error has occurred, inform people... # set bad_status = $status if ($bad_status == 2) then Mail -s "Nightly Backup Failed..." $INFORM <From fish@daacdev1.stx.com Tue Jan 11 16:04:31 1994 Message-Id: <9401112204.AA22029@dexter.psych.umn.edu> Received: from daacdev1.stx.com by dexter.psych.umn.edu; Tue, 11 Jan 94 16:04:31 -0600 Received: by daacdev1.stx.com (1.36.108.7/16.2) id AA05884; Tue, 11 Jan 1994 17:10:38 -0500 Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 17:10:38 -0500 To: rob@dexter Subject: Re: Automated backups with crontab? Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.admin References: From: fish@daacdev1.stx.com (John Vanderpool) Status: RO In comp.sys.sgi.admin you write: >I would like to just have a blank tape in my SGI and >every day at 2:00 am, do a tar -c /usr/driving >then have it do a tar -C /usr/driving > result-file.doc just do a "tar cvf >result-file.doc" (unless you're really paranoid) >Could someone please post the format I should use, and am >I correct in thinking I need to use crontab for this? yes, crontab is the way to go i also do a "mt -t /dev/whatever unload" just in case some fool comes in and writes over the backup tape before i can get to the drive. fish here's a file i use to simplify cron manipulation: #!/bin/sh # # cronedit, cronview - crontab entry edit, view # # note: just make cronview a symbolic (or hard) link to cronedit # # 26-oct-1993 jrv re-organized, began to add remote capability (but NOT done!) # 20-may-1993 jrv add cronview, remove restriction of cwd for edit by using /tmp # 27-apr-1993 jrv initial release (John.Vanderpool@gsfc.nasa.gov) ${SHDEBUG:-} # export SHDEBUG="set -x" externally, else this is a nop self=`basename $0` if [ `uname` = HP-UX ]; then RSH=/usr/bin/remsh # make sure we get remote shell not restricted shell else RSH=rsh # assume PATH is in "correct" order fi # adding remote capability is NOT done, and might not be worth the effort if [ "$1" != "" ]; then remote="$RSH $1" else remote="" fi crontab -l >/dev/null # check if user has a crontab status=$? if [ $status != 0 -a $self != cronedit ]; then exit $status; fi if [ "$self" = "cronview" ]; then crontab -l | ${PAGER:-more} exit fi tmpcronfile=${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/cronfile.`whoami` crontab -l > /dev/null && crontab -l > $tmpcronfile ${EDITOR:-vi} $tmpcronfile echo "submit cronfile? (y/n) [n] : \c" read answer if [ "$answer" = "y" -o "$answer" = "Y" ]; then crontab $tmpcronfile status=$? else status=2 fi if [ $status = 0 ]; then # crontab succeeded echo "$self: crontab updated." elif [ $status = 1 ]; then # crontab failed echo "$self: crontab not updated" mv $tmpcronfile ${tmpcronfile}.$$ echo "$self: temporary crontab saved as ${tmpcronfile}.$$" else # answer not y|Y echo "$self: crontab not updated." fi if [ -f $tmpcronfile ]; then /bin/rm -f $tmpcronfile; fi -- John R. Vanderpool INTERNET: fish@eosdata.gsfc.nasa.gov Well she's walking, through the clouds, with a circus smile thats running 'round Butterflies and zebras, and fairytales, that's all she ever thinks about... jh >From dan@tesla.psych.nyu.edu Tue Jan 11 16:02:04 1994 Received: from TESLA.PSYCH.NYU.EDU by dexter.psych.umn.edu; Tue, 11 Jan 94 16:02:04 -0600 Received: by tesla.psych.nyu.edu (920330.SGI/920502.SGI) for rob@dexter.psych.umn.edu id AA14823; Tue, 11 Jan 94 17:05:01 -0500 From: dan@tesla.psych.nyu.edu (Dan Karron) Message-Id: <9401112205.AA14823@tesla.psych.nyu.edu> Subject: Re: Automated backups with crontab? To: rob@dexter (Robert Stephens) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 17:05:01 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: from "Robert Stephens" at Jan 11, 94 07:41:48 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1347 Status: RO Look on my anon ftp for some old disk admin scripts. I used them for years, and reciently rewrote it in perl. If you are really interested, I can share that stuff with you. anon ftp to karron.med.nyu.edu for more stuff. Also, check out gtar with gzip compression, i can make snapshot dumps (incrimental plus the usr image) on a 2 gig tape of about 3 gig of uncompressed stuff. Bru with the compression option does not do it well enough. >From Robert Stephens > > I read the FAQs and man pages on crontab, but I am still > unclear as to the best way to backup automatically. > > I would like to just have a blank tape in my SGI and > every day at 2:00 am, do a tar -c /usr/driving > then have it do a tar -C /usr/driving > result-file.doc > > Could someone please post the format I should use, and am > I correct in thinking I need to use crontab for this? > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > -- > > Robert C. Stephens rob@dexter.psych.umn.edu > > Human Factors Research Lab > University of Minnesota > -- | karron@nyu.edu (e-mail alias ) Dan Karron, Ph.D.,Research Associate| | Phone: 212 263 5210 Fax: 212 263 7190 New York University Medical Center | | 560 First Avenue Digital Pager <1> 212 397 9330 | | New York, New York 10016 <2> 10896 <3> | >From shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu Tue Jan 11 15:28:32 1994 Received: from mailhub.cc.columbia.edu by dexter.psych.umn.edu; Tue, 11 Jan 94 15:28:32 -0600 Received: from still3.chem.columbia.edu by mailhub.cc.columbia.edu with SMTP id AA12524 (5.65c+CU/IDA-1.4.4/HLK for rob@dexter.psych.umn.edu); Tue, 11 Jan 1994 16:32:48 -0500 Received: by still3.chem.columbia.edu (930416.SGI/930416.SGI.AUTO) for @cunixf.cc.columbia.edu:rob@dexter.psych.umn.edu id AA07178; Tue, 11 Jan 94 16:32:16 -0500 Date: Tue, 11 Jan 94 16:32:16 -0500 From: shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin) Message-Id: <9401112132.AA07178@still3.chem.columbia.edu> To: rob@dexter Subject: Re: Automated backups with crontab? Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.admin In-Reply-To: Organization: Dept. of Chem, Columbia U, New York Cc: Status: RO I'm including the scripts I use. "backup" is what I feed to cron; all it does is call "csh" to execute "backup.csh2". This script makes a tar tape, summarizes the contents, verifies it with "tar -C", listing suspicious entries, and saves the diagnostics plus table-of-contents in a file called "latest". Periodically, I move this file to some other name and save the tape. The appended uuencoded file will uudecode to "backup.tar.Z", which should be "uncompress"-ed and "tar -x"-ed. Hope this helps. -P. begin 660 backup.tar.Z M'YV08L*,65,'#H"#"!,J7,BPH<.'$"-*1`BCXHT:-4``J`B#QHT9&CG&H)%Q M(\>3,&S<``$#8TL:,V2,S`@CA@P:'0&PG,BSI\^?0`'4F4,GC!R3<]"4<;,F MC9N@"HFF8<.&3!D[4+-JWO$,>0`?%BJ)P7<,J\@<.FS(ND2YNZ>1%P M8,$Y"N@Z?3$F*8@69D#4)0C'15\T,A2`7/'D"-+GDRY,D,(`%#0^O/O M&!S.Q\Z!-@CD`6:>@PL:3BK#LNN%'"^6Y.@1I,F:)$.BK&D#QLJ6-6+,@#'C M!@WA+(7?C*$3QNOG$H<6/5H1+E.G7*52M8H5NO?OX(.."$%6S-[#?\TH$$O6 M+%JU;-U:ETM7(.$Y(':`X*)@.H@Q=NRG0'MSG)766FV]T$8;;Y#QEAQCT-6& M4P(2:"!\"ʅ^!Z"\BEUG1L5OD7'5&S,$.*%)+YEHEPI>NBB M>P?&IR"##A88H1@3HLBABBS24-:(.FHHY(`2.G5C@3$@F>&,&S()I),O1IEC M@@LV^."/058(@@\F@%"$''+,X8)_^O%7QAAHO`&""'.."4*<5;6IP)MQ@G#" M%&GH408(<]2QH%%YZ'#"F#[<^4:>`KKP5J!E%)46"#R8B:::_OG0*)YCZ=TMKK*J5&W@BKJ MJG6:^NFCN0HXJI]4A'&I'67(D889:8P1QHIOH(B"?T.D`$(8;KQ!*QMIE#$' M"XN>"FI^SB*[*`CDM5$&N?A9.BBY8Y&1QAQK@(!M6_CY:X89U;);++/PJMKG MO(W:BR\(_@(L\%2#DO&&NB"42P<(9>#Q+QT*N\OPL0^#`,(/($CL1L'_!CSP MH-JZX;%@@_(:!ADE+UM5PWO*J_(4+=_[\L5M@?#ON(3FT888CV8+`KI,V6KR MSWJ""P(?(.S:JY]>;,%%"#[\,$47[?H<:KQ]EKHPU@*V$>"[;&RK[L=Z:ONQ ML&L2>VK==-P-M!QM:)IFW[&:,.#5:SM,:IV,H\RJJ[#*>J@PSQ8Y2#,:Q5,-Q,]@0`^XQ)2?# M#;XWUWKKTAF%%)5/;>4A=\='+_WQ8=P1\`D*D``"2"'X0=868;2@1Q`M:-'% M"PGLH4`"A1;>@^4@K``""3,HT(<"13A!1/KKPV&M&Q\3@1_HU#X6S$D,;'C# M0/!#H0&"P`E2,*`(9H:?;H%`7R!XGP/;]P(9=`0'$@1!$\3@`CK93P$PL]C, M*+8Q_-PL9"/K&:Z`]JQYL1$-AT@;U-+" MT+2G16T,4W/*&JRF-J!IC6M>\US8QE:VLPWQ9&Q[G+)FJ">YS1!P@LO;M@PW MK%C]S6Y$&5SA1$From @VM.BS.DLR.DE:beyer@bflsgu.fl.bs.dlr.de Wed Jan 12 06:55:37 1994 Received: from vm.bs.dlr.de by dexter.psych.umn.edu; Wed, 12 Jan 94 06:55:37 -0600 Received: from bflsgu.fl.bs.dlr.de by VM.BS.DLR.DE (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.2MX) with TCP; Wed, 12 Jan 94 14:00:04 MEZ Received: by bflsgu.fl.bs.dlr.de (5.52/890607.SGI) (for @vm.bs.dlr.de:rob@dexter.psych.umn.edu) id AA02528; Wed, 12 Jan 94 13:59:59 +0100 Date: Wed, 12 Jan 94 13:59:59 +0100 From: beyer@bflsgu.fl.bs.dlr.de (Ralf Beyer DLR) Message-Id: <9401121259.AA02528@bflsgu.fl.bs.dlr.de> To: rob@dexter Subject: archive Cc: info-iris-admin@brl.mil Status: RO I would like to just have a blank tape in my SGI and every day at 2:00 am, do a tar -c /usr/driving then have it do a tar -C /usr/driving > result-file.doc 1. cd /usr/tmp. 2. Install the following script in /usr/tmp/backup. #!/bin/csh set MYDIR=/tmp mt rewind if ($1 == new) then tar cv $MYDIR else mt feom tar cv $MYDIR endif 3. Give the script execution priviledges. 4. Edit the script and set MYDIR to the directories/ files to be backed-up. 5. Insert a new or used and unformatted DAT. 6. Create the first archive of the directories/files specified by MYDIR manually by executing /usr/tmp/backup new 7. Install the following script in /usr/tmp/tem # # $Revision: 1.3 $ # # The root crontab can be used to perform # accounting data collection and and clean up. # # Format of lines: #min hour daymo month daywk cmd # 0 2 * * * /usr/tmp/backup 8. Submit the script to your crontab file crontab tem 9. The directories/files specified by MYDIR will be backed-up daily at 2 a.m. in consecutive, separate archives on the tape. Regards Ralf Beyer German Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR), Institute for Flight Guidance, P.O.Box 3267, D-38022 Braunschweig, Fed. Rep. of Germany beyer@bflsgu.fl.bs.dlr.de (working hours) fl17@dlrvmbs.bitnet (24 h) Article: 5765 of comp.sys.sgi.admin Path: news3.cis.umn.edu!umn.edu!news-feed-2.peachnet.edu!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!darwin.sura.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!dizzy.cplex.com!irv From: irv@dizzy.cplex.com (Irv Lustig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.admin Subject: Re: Automated backups with crontab? Date: 12 Jan 1994 14:44:45 GMT Organization: CPLEX Optimization, Inc. Lines: 29 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2h12ct$muf@c3po.jvnc.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lustig.jvnc.net In article , rob@dexter.psych.umn.edu (Robert Stephens) writes: |> I would like to just have a blank tape in my SGI and |> every day at 2:00 am, do a tar -c /usr/driving |> then have it do a tar -C /usr/driving > result-file.doc |> |> Could someone please post the format I should use, and am |> I correct in thinking I need to use crontab for this? |> Create a file called /usr/local/adm/overnight with the following in it #!/bin/csh -f tar -c /usr/driving tar -C /usr/driving > result-file.doc Then do a chmod 700 /usr/local/adm/overnight Then put the following line in your crontab 0 2 * * * /usr/local/adm/overnight That should do it. Of course, you can put any csh commands you want in the overnight file. -Irv Lustig Director of Numerical Optimization CPLEX Optimization, Inc. irv@dizzy.cplex.com Robert C. Stephens rob@dexter.psych.umn.edu Human Factors Research Lab University of Minnesota From neutron.chem.yale.edu!dcs Tue Jan 18 16:00:10 1994 Received: from neutron.chem.yale.edu ([130.132.25.75]) by viz.tamu.edu with SMTP id <12922>; Tue, 18 Jan 1994 16:00:04 -0600 Received: by neutron.chem.yale.edu (931110.SGI.ANONFTP/931108.SGI.AUTO.ANONFTP) for sgi-faq@viz.tamu.edu id AA17264; Tue, 18 Jan 94 16:58:10 -0500 From: dcs@neutron.chem.yale.edu (Dave Schweisguth) Message-Id: <9401182158.AA17264@neutron.chem.yale.edu> Subject: Re: your mail To: rob@dexter.psych.umn.edu (Robert Stephens) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 15:58:10 -0600 Cc: sgi-faq@viz.tamu.edu (SGI Frequently Asked Questions list) Reply-To: sgi-faq@viz.tamu.edu (SGI Frequently Asked Questions list) In-Reply-To: <9401131539.AA27404@dexter.psych.umn.edu> from "Robert Stephens" at Jan 13, 94 09:39:53 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 664 Robert, > I enjoy your SGI faq very much, and I thought the following might be > useful to include in the SGI-admin FAQ. These are responses I received > after posting for info on how to use crontab to automate a tape > backup. I guess you can decide which one works best. Keep up the good > work. Thanks much for sending your results. Rather than cut down on anyone's options, I've put the whole thing in the archive on viz.tamu.edu. Let us know if you get any more along the same lines. Cheers, -- | Dave Schweisguth Yale MB&B & Chemistry Net: dcs@neutron.chem.yale.edu | | For complying with the NJ Right To Know Act: Contents partially unknown. |