I really don’t like working with Mac’s, though the fact that they are based off of unix now does make it easier to work with. A little while back I had to write a script to backup a Mac to a usb drive. I had first looked for some free or low cost software that would backup the Mac and a NAS, but didn’t have a lot of luck. Instead I ended up writing a shell script to do it. It’s a little rough, but works, another note the logging to email isn’t the best, but does work if you enable postfix on the Mac.<\/p>\n
here is the script:<\/p>\n
——————————————->start of script<————————————————————<\/p>\n
#!\/bin\/sh
\n#written by David Hedges<\/p>\n
DATE=`date +%Y%m%d` #get the date
\nDOW=`date +%a` #get day of the week
\nTIMEDIR=\/Volumes\/LaCie\/time<\/p>\n
mkdir \/Volumes\/scans
\nmkdir \/Volumes\/shareddata
\nmkdir \/Volumes\/usersdata
\nmkdir \/Volumes\/it
\nmkdir \/Volumes\/LaCie<\/p>\n
mount -t hfs \/dev\/disk1s1 \/Volumes\/LaCie
\nmount -t smbfs \/\/administrator:<password>@192.168.42.10\/it \/Volumes\/it
\nmount -t smbfs \/\/administrator:<password>@192.168.42.10\/usersdata \/Volumes\/usersdata
\nmount -t smbfs \/\/administrator:<password>@192.168.42.10\/shareddata \/Volumes\/shareddata
\nmount -t smbfs \/\/administrator:<password>@192.168.42.10\/scans \/Volumes\/scans<\/p>\n
rsync -avz \/Volumes\/it \/Volumes\/LaCie\/current\/it >\/Volumes\/LaCie\/logs\/$DOW.log
\nrsync -avz \/Volumes\/usersdata \/Volumes\/LaCie\/current\/usersdata >>\/Volumes\/LaCie\/logs\/$DOW.log
\nrsync -avz \/Volumes\/shareddata \/Volumes\/LaCie\/current\/shareddata >>\/Volumes\/LaCie\/logs\/$DOW.log
\nrsync -avz \/Volumes\/scans \/Volumes\/LaCie\/current\/scans >>\/Volumes\/LaCie\/logs\/$DOW.log
\nrsync -avz –exlcude Volumes \/ \/Volumes\/LaCie\/current\/local >>\/Volumes\/LaCie\/logs\/$DOW.log<\/p>\n
# Weekly full backup
\nif [ $DOW = “Fri” ]; then
\nNEWER=””
\nNOW=`date +%d-%b`
\necho $NOW > $TIMEDIR\/full-date
\ntar $NEWER -zcvf \/Volumes\/LaCie\/$DOW.tgz \/Volumes\/LaCie\/current >>\/Volumes\/LaCie\/logs\/$DOW.log
\nelse
\nNEWER=”–newer `cat $TIMEDIR\/full-date`”
\ntar $NEWER -zcvf \/Volumes\/LaCie\/$DOW.tgz \/Volumes\/LaCie\/current >>\/Volumes\/LaCie\/logs\/$DOW.log
\nfi<\/p>\n
grep -i fail \/Volumes\/LaCie\/logs\/$DOW.log >\/Volumes\/LaCie\/logs\/$DOW.error.log
\ngrep -i error \/Volumes\/LaCie\/logs\/$DOW.log >>\/Volumes\/LaCie\/logs\/$DOW.error.log
\nmail -s backup-results <email address> <\/Volumes\/LaCie\/logs\/$DOW.error.log
\nmail -s backup-results <email address> <\/Volumes\/LaCie\/logs\/$DOW.log<\/p>\n
——————————————->end script<————————————-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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