This is a followup to Operation: Simple Functional Backup.
Okay, here are the glorious scripts I came up with.
I call this one dailybackup: [UPDATE: a newer version of my script is posted here]
BASH:
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#!/bin/sh
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SOURCEDIR=/Users/john ;
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ARCHIVEROOT=/Volumes/fire/backup ;
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ARCHIVENAME=PowerBookHomeDirectory ;rsync \
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-a –delete -delete-excluded \
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–exclude “/Music/” \
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–exclude “/tmp/” \
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–exclude “/Library/Caches/” \
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–exclude “/Desktop/downloads/” \
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$SOURCEDIR/ $ARCHIVEROOT/$ARCHIVENAME ;
I call this one monthlybackup:
BASH:
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#!/bin/sh
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# Comment this out if you want to use the built-in disk burner. If you want to use an external device find it’s name from `hdiutil burn -list`
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DEVICE=‘-device IOService:/MacRISC2PE/pci@f4000000/AppleMacRiscPCI/firewire@E/AppleFWOHCI/IOFireWireController/IOFireWireDevice@30e00150abd577/IOFireWireUnit/IOFireWireSBP2Target/IOFireWireSBP2LUN/com_apple_driver_Oxford_Semi_FW911/IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceNub/IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType05/IODVDServices’ ;
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# Where the scripts should keep its files while working with them. everything is deleted in the end anyway so /tmp should be suitable.
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SCRATCH=/tmp ;
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# Where dailybackup keeps its archive
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ARCHIVEROOT=/Volumes/fire/backup ;
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# The name of the archive that dailybackup makes.
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ARCHIVENAME=PowerBookHomeDirectory ;
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# ARCHIVENAME=testtest ;
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# The size of the chunks that gsplit should make, for DVD or CD.
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# I have not experimented with how much overhead there is for each type.
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# Please let me know if you have found an optimal size: john AT johnjosephbachir DOT org
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MEDIASIZE=4300 ;
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#MEDIASIZE=600 ;
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# stop editing ###########################
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cd $ARCHIVEROOT ;
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echo “–creating $ARCHIVENAME.tar.gz–” ;
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tar czf $SCRATCH/$ARCHIVENAME.tar.gz $ARCHIVENAME ;
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cd $SCRATCH ;
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echo “–splitting $ARCHIVENAME.tar.gz into $MEDIASIZE MegaByte pieces–” ;
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gsplit –numeric-suffixes -b$MEDIASIZE“m” $ARCHIVENAME.tar.gz $ARCHIVENAME.tar.gz_ ;
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echo “Pieces:”
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TOTAL=0 ;
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for i in $ARCHIVENAME.tar.gz_* ; do
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echo ” $i” ;
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((TOTAL++)) ;
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done;
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echo “Archive has been split into $TOTAL part(s).” ;
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echo “–deleting $ARCHIVENAME.tar.gz–” ;
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rm $ARCHIVENAME.tar.gz ;
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COUNTER=0 ;
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for i in $ARCHIVENAME.tar.gz_* ; do
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((COUNTER++)) ;
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NAME=$ARCHIVENAME.tar.gz_“$COUNTER”_of_“$TOTAL” ;
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mkdir $NAME ;
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mv “$i” $NAME ;
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echo “–creating disk image of $NAME–” ;
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hdiutil create -fs HFS+ -volname $NAME -srcfolder $NAME “$NAME”.dmg ;
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echo “–deleting $NAME–” ;
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rm -r $NAME ;
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done;
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for i in *.dmg ; do
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echo “–burning $i–”
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hdiutil burn -noverifyburn $DEVICE “$i” ;
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echo “–deleting $i–” ;
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rm “$i” ;
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done;
They could use some further refinement, but for the most part I am happy as a clam.
Two initial questions/problems:
- Do any of my geeky readers have recomendations for other things I should exclude in the first script?
splitseems to only want to make chunks that are about 600 megabytes each, even though I am specifying 4700 megabytes (DVD size). This is really annoying, but I am assuming that either I am missing something simple, or another solution will present itself.update: the problem is the
splitthat ships with OS X seems to have a max size of 2^32 bytes. I installed the gnu coreutils using darwinports (sudo port install coreutils, which installs all the utils as "g__", very nice. If you get the coreutils source from gnu, it builds without a hitch but will install without the "g" prefix), switched togsplit, and ta-da, everything is working.
oh my god. i am in heaven.
$ monthlybackup
--creating PowerBookHomeDirectory.tar.gz--
--splitting PowerBookHomeDirectory.tar.gz into 4700 MegaByte pieces--
Pieces:
PowerBookHomeDirectory.tar.gz_00
Archive has been split into 1 part(s).
--deleting PowerBookHomeDirectory.tar.gz--
--creating disk image of PowerBookHomeDirectory.tar.gz_1_of_1--
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created: /private/tmp/PowerBookHomeDirectory.tar.gz_1_of_1.dmg
--deleting PowerBookHomeDirectory.tar.gz_1_of_1--
--burning PowerBookHomeDirectory.tar.gz_1_of_1.dmg--
Please insert a disc:
Preparing data for burn
Opening session
Opening track
Writing track
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Closing track
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Closing session
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Finishing burn
Burn completed successfully
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hdiutil: burn: completed