Re: {bb} fbackup ext script

[Philip Clark <bblist@cannae.uklinux.net>]

On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 13:37, John Thrumston wrote:
> Yes it runs from cron, I realize that I could write a script to do this
> but figured if I didn't have to re-invent the wheel so to speak I
> wouldn't. Just didn't know if some other admin out there had thought of
> this before me and did it already.

I get the feeling that, for very general tools like this, most
extension scripts would normally be too site-specific to be
directly useful to others. The bb-backup.sh script on Deadcat
might be a good starting point though. It expects a log file,
but you may get enough by using the verbose option with fbackup
and redirecting the output.

Looking through the man page, I noticed that you can configure
a script to run when an error occurs. You could set that to
report directly to BB (with a long initial page delay if the
backups run in the middle of the night). Personally, I would
still use the "flag file" method just in case the backup fails
to start correctly.

Cheers, Phil.


 
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