Re: RE: Hi, about SaraB

I agree with you, Tristan. A simple bash script will do. Here's what I use 
from daily cron (/etc/cron.daily/backup), hope it helps, Xavi.

#!/bin/sh

# define the remote backup server
remote_server=nas.pointel.localzone

# first check that the NAS is reachable
ping -c 1 $remote_server 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null
if [ $? != 0 ]
then
        echo $remote_server "IS NOT REACHABLE"
        exit;
else

        echo $remote_server "IS REACHABLE"

        # mount the remote partition
        /bin/mount -o rw $remote_server:"E:\web" /mnt 1>/dev/null 
2>/dev/null

        # now check that the partition on the NAS is mounted
        if [ $? != 0 ]
        then
                echo $remote_server "IS NOT MOUNTED"
                exit;
        else
                echo $remote_server "IS MOUNTED"
                # run SaraB (shell script that automates backups using dar, 
i.e. Disk Archiver)
                /usr/local/sarab/sarab.sh
        fi
        # unmount the remote partition
        /bin/umount /mnt
fi


Cheers,
Alfredo

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tristan Rhodes" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 4:44 AM
Subject: [SaraB] RE: Hi, about SaraB


> Hello Xavi,
>
> Thanks for your interest.  I haven't put a feature like that in SaraB yet, 
> because I am not sure how useful it would be.
>
> If you needed to run a command before and after SaraB, I would make a 
> simple script that does the commands and starts SaraB.
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> mount command here
> /usr/local/sarab/sarab.sh
> umount command here
>
> # End of script
>
> Call that script from cron to automate the process.  Will that do what you 
> need?  I don't think I will add that to SaraB, unless many users request 
> it.
>
> Please send any questions or comments about SaraB to the mailing list. 
> ([email protected] )  I love user input!
>
> Tristan
>
>>hi!
>>
>>My name's xavi and i want to ask you a simple and short
>>question: are you going to implement an option to execute
>>a command before the backup and after it? it would be
>>intereseting if you want to mount a samba volume, or
>>novel volume for example.
>>
>>I don't know if it's implemented yet in the actual version...
>>(my bash isn't very well so far).
>>
>>If it's implemented, could you tell me how i can do that?
>>if it isn't... i will try to do it myself ;)
>>if it works i can send you the result.
>>
>>Well, thx anyway!
>>
>>Xavi
>
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