Some shell scripting help needed (Linux) *solved*
jibbajabba
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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 ...
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 ...
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jibbajabba
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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
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jibbajabba
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Think I just googled it myself correctly
writelog() { text=$1 echo `date +%T` $text >> $LOG } TODAY_DATE=`date +%d%m%Y` TODAY_DAY=`date +%a` LOG=/backup/$TODAY_DAY/backup.log trueimagecmd --create --harddisk:1 --filename:/backup/$TODAY_DAY/backup.tib 2>>$LOG
Something along those lines will do ... Just gonna run the Acronis job through trueimagecmd rather than the UI ...My own knowledge base made public: http://open902.com