re[2]: xfsdump sample scripts

[Greg Freemyer <freemyer@NorcrossGroup.com>]

Ian,

That will be very helpfull.  Thanks.

One problem is that you are calling e2fsck if I read your script correctly.

I don't think that works with xfs.  xfs_check would be a better choice I think.  I don't know if there are any other maintenance programs one should invoke on a scheduled basis.

And a real nit-picky thing is that you are not triming the xfs backup inventory.  It probably won't be a problem for a while.

xfsinvutil does this.  I't looks easy to delete anything over a year old if you want to do something like that.

It's probably going overboard, but I think I will actually write an expect script that invokes xfsinvutil and actually maintains a preset retention schedule.

i.e.
 Quarterly Full - Maintain for 5 years
 Monthly Full - Maintain for 12 months
 Weekly Full - Maintain for 6 months
 Daily Differential - Maintain for 3 months.

I tend to do something like the above for my production backup tapes, and it only makes sense for the inventory to match the real tapes.

Thanks again,
Greg

 >>  Hi Greg,

 >>  Thu, May 16, 2002 at 04:24:01PM -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
 >>  > Are there any sample scripts which are designed to be called from cron
 >>  and do something like the following:

 >>  I posted this script to the list last month (I've since tidied it up a
 >>  little bit), which might be what you are looking for.

 >>  Basically, I do full (level 0) dumps every Sunday, with incremental
 >>  backups every other day of the week.

 >>  I've been running this script for a few weeks. It does the job for me :)

 >>  See the attached files, and the brief documentation within.

 >>  Ian.

 >>  -- 
 >>  Ian Cumming, ian@semisphere.org

 >>  "The number of Unix installations has grown to 10, with more expected."
 >>  -- The Unix Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June, 1972




 >>  -- NextPart --
 >>  Attached File: c:\program files\goldmine\MailBox\Attach\gaf\backup.sh

 >>  -- NextPart --
 >>  Attached File: c:\program files\goldmine\MailBox\Attach\gaf\backup_cron.sh




Greg Freemyer
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