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  From: Anthony Symons <ant@sa.pracom.com.au>
  To  : David Tanti <david@rtime.com.au>
  Date: 01 Nov 2001 17:55:31 +1030

Re: cron

You can point it to a shell script rather than the tar command itself.
Then have a script something like this (a cut down version of a backup
script we use here):


#!/bin/bash

# what to backup
DIRLIST="/etc /home/httpd /mnt/doco /mnt/server"

# look for backup subdirectorys in home dirs and back them up too
DYNAMICLIST=`find /home -maxdepth 2 -mindepth 2 -name backup`

#do the tar. /dev/st0 is scsi tape zero, but you probably want to use a
#file, or you could put it on another file system on another machine
#which is better again. smb is a quick and easy option.

tar -czvf /dev/st0 $DYNAMICLIST $DIRLIST 2>&1 1>/dev/null

#remind Ant to change the tape
echo -e "to:backups@foghorn\nfrom:backup@flanders\nsubject:FLANDERS:
backup `date` completed, change the tape" | sendmail -t




On Thu, 2001-11-01 at 17:27, David Tanti wrote:
> I have put an entry in /etc/crontab being
> 
> 30 22 * * 1-5 tar cvf /
> 
> I am relatively new to Linux and appreciate this is rather a crude way of
> backing up everthing.  I was wondering if it is possible when the backup has
> started or completed if I can get sent an email telling me.
> 
> Is there something I can add to the command above to achieve what I want.
> 
> Thanks very much
> 
> Regards
> David
> 
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