1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 | #!/bin/bash # mybackup - Backup selected files & directories and email them as .tar.gz file to # your email account. # List of BACKUP files/dirs stored in file ~/.mybackup # # Usage : ./mybackup # # Notes : Very handy tool to take backup (nowdays we have 1 gig+ email a/c) # # Copyright (C) 2004 nixCraft project # Email/Contact : http://cyberciti.biz/fb/ # Date : Aug-2004 # Last updated : Aug-2005 # ------------------------------------------------------------------------- # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License # as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 # of the License, or (at your option) any later version. # ------------------------------------------------------------------------- # This script is part of nixCraft shell script collection (NSSC) # Visit http://bash.cyberciti.biz/ for more information. # ------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE=~/.mybackup NOW=`date +"%d-%m-%Y"` OUT="`echo $USER.$HOSTNAME`.$NOW.tar.gz" TAR=`which tar` # mail setup MSUB="Backup (`echo $USER @ $HOSTNAME`) as on `date`" MES=~/tmp/mybackup.txt MATT=~/tmp/$OUT # make sure we put backup in our own tmp and not in /tmp [ ! -d ~/tmp ] && mkdir ~/tmp || : if [ -f $FILE ]; then IN="`cat $FILE | grep -E -v "^#"`" else echo "File $FILE does not exists" exit 3 fi if [ "$IN" == "" ]; then echo "$FILE is empty, please add list of files/directories to backup" echo "Use mybackupadd script" exit 2 fi $TAR -zcf ~/tmp/$OUT $IN >/dev/null # create message for mail echo "Backup successfully done. Please see attached file." > $MES echo "" >> $MES echo "Backup file: $OUT" >> $MES echo "" >> $MES # bug fix, we can't send email with attachment if mutt is not installed which mutt > /dev/null if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then # now mail backup file with this attachment mutt -s "$MSUB" -a "$MATT" $MTO < $MES else echo "Command mutt not found, cannot send an email with attachment" fi # clean up /bin/rm -f $MATT /bin/rm -f $MES |
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4 comment
what does this line will do. I too new for scripting :
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cat $FILE | grep -E -v "^#"“thanks :D
its very useful ;)
nice script
Hi, i am not experienced in this, but i would like to know where to find help files on this script.