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| mobi_backup [26.09.2018 15:32] – [Migration from RUBI] Pascal Suter | mobi_backup [26.09.2018 15:53] – [MOBI Backup (rsync wrapper)] Pascal Suter |
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| rm -f /tmp/backupReport.txt | rm -f /tmp/backupReport.txt |
| </code> | </code> |
| | ===== run daily ===== |
| | in order to run the backup daily, run ''crontab -e'' as user ''root'' and enter a new line like this one here: |
| | 00 1 * * * /opt/mobi.sh > /dev/null 2>&1 |
| | using the redirects of both stdout and stderr to ''/dev/null'' makes sure you don't receive two emails on every backup where one would come through cron. all the necessary info is logged and the summary is emailaed directly without needing cron to send us any info. |
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| | ===== Error due to old flock version ===== |
| | when this script is run on an older linux distribution such as CentOS 6.5 for example, the provided version of flock is too old to know the ''-E'' option which specifies an exit code in case the lock could not be acquired. in such a situation you can patch the mobi.sh script using this command: |
| | sed -i '/-E 66 //' mobi.sh |
| | this will make the script work on those systems. however, since now the exit code of flock is ''1'' when it can't acquire a lock the error message displayed in such a case might be a bit misleading, as it is the same as displayed in case of a syntax error in the rsync call. so keep that in mind when debugging such cases. |
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| ===== Migration from RUBI ===== | ===== Migration from RUBI ===== |
| - remove the ":" in the directory name of the last backup that is written in ''lastdst'' like so: <code>mv 2018.04.01-00\:09 2018.04.01-0009</code> | - remove the ":" in the directory name of the last backup that is written in ''lastdst'' like so: <code>mv 2018.04.01-00\:09 2018.04.01-0009</code> |
| - cleanup old log files and ''lastdst'' file and whatever else there might be laying around in this folder. | - cleanup old log files and ''lastdst'' file and whatever else there might be laying around in this folder. |
| - remmber to come back and delete the old backups when it's time. old RUBI backups won't be rotated using mobi, this needs to be done manually. mobi will only include backups into the rotation for which it finds a log file of a successful backup job. | - remember to come back and delete the old backups when it's time. old RUBI backups won't be rotated using mobi, this needs to be done manually. mobi will only include backups into the rotation for which it finds a log file of a successful backup job. |