Some shell scripting help needed (Linux) *solved*

jibbajabba

All our Linux server obviously run daily backups.
A NFS share is mounted to /backup and the daily backups are saved in /backup/Mon ; /backup/ Tue and so on.

Our own backup scripts we use just tars up folder xyz and writes a log called backup.log.

Now Acronis on the other hand, writes its logfiles in

/etc/Acronis/TrueImage/Logs/

They looks something like :

Feb_6__2009_9_09_33_AM.log

Trouble is now. We have a "sanity" server running which checks every server's backup.log to ensure the backup did at least run and whether it was successful or not.

What we did with Acronis first was configuring a post-command moving the logfile to /backup and rename it accordingly. This however doesn't work for Incremental or Differential Acronis tasks as it requires that particular logfile.

Now is there a way to write a shell script which checks the current date and 'copies' rather than moving the file into a new location ?

So the script checks for example the current date

# date
Fri Feb 6 09:13:29 GMT 2009

and based on the output it knows it must copy only

Feb_6__2009_9_09_33_AM.log

to /backup/Fri etc.

?

I hope it makes sense ...

Btw., the script doesn't have to know whether to put it in /backup/Mon or /backup/Tue etc., as the Acronis server normally have a task setup for each day to retain a 7-day rotation.

Any help is highly appreciate it ...

jibbajabba

Mmmm... it appears that it does actually still work, it simply cannot send the logile as the post-command is invoked before the mail has been send out.

 completed successfully.
Description : Create Full Backup Archive
From:	sda
To file:	"/backup/Fri/Friday.tib"
Compression:	Normal
Cannot read the log file

Mmm...

Ah well, still, if someone has an idea - shoot