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#4 Re: Question: /var is gone, now what? Posted by wolfrider (67.184.xx.xx) on Sun 16 Oct 2005 at 12:51 After reading an article about this very situation some time ago (probably linxgazette.net), I incorporated this into a bkpcrit script that goes to 100MB Zip drive: ( Note: All of my /mnt/* dirs have a NOTHERE file in the directory if nothing is mounted there. To create, simply ' touch /mnt/zippy/NOTHERE ' before mounting anything to that dir. ) BEGIN /root/bin/bkpcrit: #!/bin/sh # Backup critical files (hopefully) stime=`date` dest='/mnt/zippy' mount $dest [ -e "$dest/NOTHERE" ] && echo "$dest NOT MOUNTED" && exit 99 # "If" checking for NOTHERE file... dest=$dest'/bkpcrit-p500-hda6-knoppix26' echo $dest = PK read mkdir -p -v $dest # Copy this bkp script to zippy cp $0 $dest cp ~/localinfo.dat $dest cp /etc/fstab $dest cp /etc/inittab $dest tar cpvzf $dest/bkp-ETC-debian.tar.gz /etc tar cpvzf $dest/bkp-DEV-debian.tar.gz /dev tar cpvzf $dest/bkp-root-debian.tar.gz /root tar cpvzf $dest/bkp-davesrc-debian.tar.gz /home/dave/src tar cpvzf $dest/bkp-davebin-debian.tar.gz /home/dave/bin tar cpvzf $dest/bkp-usr-local-bin-debian.tar.gz /usr/local/bin #tar cpvzf $dest/bkp-usr-local-src-debian.tar.gz /usr/local/src tar cpvzf $dest/bkp-var-dpkg-status.tar.gz /var/lib/dpkg tar cpvzf $dest/bkp-var-dpkg-backups.tar.gz /var/backups #/var/adm/inst-log # Dotfiles cd /root tar cpvzf $dest/bkp-root-dotfiles--restore-locally.tar.gz .[^.]* cd /home/dave tar \ --exclude='.kde/share/thumbnails' \ --exclude='.kde/share/cache' \ --exclude='.opera/cache4' \ --exclude=".mozilla/firefox/*.default/Cache" \ --exclude='.gqview' --exclude='.thumbnails' \ --exclude='.pan/*' \ -cpvzf $dest/bkp-dave-dotfiles--restore-locally.tar.gz .[^.]* tar cpvzf $dest/bkp-usr-src-cfgs.tar.gz /usr/src/*.cfg sync ls $dest -al df $dest echo $stime' --> '`date` exit

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