[Bio-linux-dev] bio-linux-backups

[Tim Booth]

Hi Tony,

Indeed - once you point it out it's hard to see how I ever missed it.

I've updated the package, also adding the -w flag to grep while I'm at
it, so if for some reason you want to
mount /media/backup, /back, /backup and /backup2 all at once the script
will not get confused.

Cheers,

TIM

On Mon, 2014-01-20 at 13:02 +0000, Tony Travis wrote:
> Hi, Tim.
> 
> I came across a bug in bio-linux-backups if you change the default
> backup destination:
> 
>   /backups
> 
> I want to do two backups to:
> 
>   /backup1
>   /backup2
> 
> However, the /etc/cron.daily/backup script has the literal string
> "/backups" in it, which I've replaced with the $backup_destination
> variable instead:
> 
> > diff -Naur backup backup.orig
> > --- backup    2014-01-20 12:56:34.561789259 +0000
> > +++ backup.orig       2010-10-05 13:49:43.000000000 +0100
> > @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
> >
> >  # if backup drive is already mounted then try to unmount it first.
> >  # if this is in use the step will fail and exit
> > -/bin/mount | grep -q "$backup_destination" && /bin/umount "$backup_destination" 2>/dev/null
> > +/bin/mount | grep -q "/backups" && /bin/umount /backups 2>/dev/null
> >
> >  # mount necessary drive - must be listed
> >  # in /etc/fstab in order to be mounted
> 
> I run two backups, using a minor modification and custom config files:
> 
> > diff -Naur backup backup1
> > --- backup    2014-01-20 12:56:34.561789259 +0000
> > +++ backup1   2014-01-20 12:08:48.222583966 +0000
> > @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
> >  #######################################################################
> >
> >  # Source configuration file
> > -CONFIG=/etc/default/backup
> > +CONFIG=/etc/default/backup1
> >  if [ -r $CONFIG ]; then
> >      . $CONFIG
> >  fi
> 
> > diff -Naur backup backup2
> > --- backup    2014-01-20 12:56:34.561789259 +0000
> > +++ backup2   2014-01-20 12:09:07.657796498 +0000
> > @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
> >  #######################################################################
> >
> >  # Source configuration file
> > -CONFIG=/etc/default/backup
> > +CONFIG=/etc/default/backup2
> >  if [ -r $CONFIG ]; then
> >      . $CONFIG
> >  fi
> 
> HTH,
> 
>   Tony.
> 
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