[Sheflug] Re: Backup advice

[Richard Ibbotson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alex

> #!/bin/sh
> rsync -a /home/mydocs/  /home/richard/ > /dev/null 2>&1
> mkdir -p /tmp/backup
> export FILE=3Dbackup-`date +%Y%m%d`.tgz
> tar -cz /home/richard > /tmp/mybackup/$FILE
> mkisofs -r -J -o /tmp/backup.iso /tmp/backup
> # cdrecord -v speed=3D2 dev=3D0,1,0 blank=3Dfast
> cdrecord -v speed=3D2 dev=3D0,1,0 -data /tmp/backup.iso
> rm -rf /tmp/backup /tmp/backup.iso


Okay ... I've done './backup' in /usr/bin to start the script.  It 
worked fine until it got down to the bit about "cdrecord - v 
speed=3D2"  and then it barfed.   It tells me that ...

cdrecord: Bad Option: speed=3D2

and then it reeled off a longish list of options that I could use.  
None of which was in plain English so I couldn't understand it.  One 
of the options was dev=target which selects a SCSI CD-ROM which is 
what my CD-ROM is.   So,  what do I change here ?

Other thing is .. when I finally get the script to work the cron 
job.. ... you said use ...  [at] daily.  Thing is, I've always found with 
SuSE cron jobs that they are a bit choosy about the syntax that you 
use.  In my own experience it doesn't like thing like  [at] daily.  It 
probably won't work.  Anything else I can use ?

Thanks


-- 
Richard
___________________________________________________________________

Sheffield Linux User's Group -
http://www.sheflug.co.uk/mailfaq.html

  GNU the choice of a complete generation.