Whereas, October 31, 2007 will be the 15th anniversary of the first public demo of sunsite.unc.edu, which is now known as iBiblio.org; and

Whereas, the iBiblio website digital repository and community have become cultural treasures of the state of North Carolina, and

Whereas, iBiblio has played a pivotal role as both a medium and advocate for the free and open sharing of digital information.

Then, therefore this Eighth Day of March
In the Year of Two Thousand Seven,
Representatives Deborah Ross and Verla Insko recognize
iBiblio

For its commitment and contributions to technology and culture,
and to the North Carolina community as a whole.

Here’s the script, called backup.sh:

[bash]
#! /bin/bash

# Definitions
DISK=disk1s1
DIR_NAME=jonmills
SOURCE=/Users/${DIR_NAME}/
DEST=/Volumes/Backup/${DIR_NAME}/
EXCLUDE=/var/log/backup/excludes.${DIR_NAME}

# Mount a disk by hand with disktool
/usr/sbin/disktool -m ${DISK}

# Wait for the disk to spin up, or else this won’t work
sleep 10

# Copy the files with rsync
/usr/bin/rsync -av \
–delete \
–delete-excluded \
–exclude-from=${EXCLUDE} \
${SOURCE} \
${DEST}

# Unmount the disk manually with disktool
/usr/sbin/disktool -u ${DISK}
[/bash]

crontab looks like this:

[code]
#
# min hour mday month wday command

# Run the script at 4:30 AM and mail me the log
30 4 * * * ~/.backup.sh 2>&1 | mail -s "Backup Log - `date`" _____@gmail.com
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