Basic Backup Script Assistance Needed!!!

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Help!

I have looked around the

http://www for

free backup scripts as I am unable to write my own!

Storage Mountain supplied me with 'hostdump' & 'Amanda' both of which supply me with too many options IMO

I need a script that will allow the use of UFSDUMP to a local & network DLT tape drive, incremental backups with cron sheduling & easy restores...

ie. Can I just boot from CD in single user mode & then run UFSRESTORE to restore my volumes?

Help

Solaris 7 Sparc

Many Thanks for your assistance !!!

 

[SteveR77]

This was a post from Dave Perry that will hopefully be useful to you.


Store the dump files on a NFS server. Ideally the system should be in a single user mode when doing a ufsdump but near zero disk activity should be OK. Booting from a CD with network support is perfect.
In the following example, change the IP and share information to reflect an NFS server in your network. You could also write dump files to a series of tapes, 1 tape / slice but network restores are much quicker.

#!/bin/sh
hostname=`hostname | cut -f 1 -d '.'`
NFSSERVER=192.168.1.1
if [ `mount | grep -c $NFSSERVER` -eq 0 ] ; then
mount $NFSSERVER:/exports/dumpfiles/$hostname /mnt
fi
df -k | grep c0t > /tmp/slice
cat /tmp/slice | while read rdsk kbytes used avail capacity mounted ; do
if [ "$mounted" = "/" ] ; then
slice="root"
else
slice=`echo $mounted | sed -e 's,^/,,'`
fi
echo $slice
ufsdump 0uf - $mounted | compress > /mnt/$slice.dump.Z
done
ufsdump 0uf - / | compress > /mnt/root.dump.Z
umount /mnt

 

[dblair]

or use gzip instead of compress for better/faster compression.