Hello Community
I'm new to OpenBSD, I want to write a script for
backup and monitoring changes
all files on the disk.

Shell: ksh
Utilities: dump, restore
Input data: /etc/fstab ,/etc/dumpdates
Output data: backup files, text file - filenames with changes
Output dist: scsi disk for backup file, mail for text file

What do you think will be the most elegant solution
for this problem?

With best regards from Russia.
Axl Melkhov.

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I use restore -t on the dump just created to get the listing of
backed up files.

I'm not sure just what your question is though - what you want
seems clear enough, you just need to write the script now.


paulm



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How about looking at rsync....

Thats what we use and it will list out changes.
I used to cron it each night and have it email
the output...

-- 
J.D. Bronson

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rsync is great, and there's a few utils that uses it such as rdiff-backup.

On the other hand, if the number of machines you're backing up and
restoring is a bit larger, I've developed a fondness for bacula myself.

Not directly relevant to the OP's immediate problem, but it's a very
nice system, and you can configure it to send you pretty much any
level of info you want to see on what it does.

- Peter
-- 
Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team
http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/
"Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic"
delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.

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I know you want to write your own script, but take a look at rsnapshot
[1]. I've been using it for a while to backup my systems at home and
it's been delightful. Just a small program based on rsync that handles
backups in a nice simple, more space efficient, and automated way.

[1] http://rsnapshot.org/
-- 
Samuel Baldwin - logik.li

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Monitoring changes:
OpenBSD checks every day the system and generate a diff e.g. of the /etc 
folder and send an email to the root account. You can forward this email to 
your account if you want.
Changes in the system will backuped in /var/backups by default.

Backup your System (backup of big systems is not easy):
dump and restore are a possible solution.
I use bacula, an distributed backup tool. It can be a little bit complex for 
one pc system.

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2nd the recommendation for rsnapshot. Simple solution to many problems
(including backing up files with root privledges) that are tricky with
rsync, as the rsnapshot machine is logging into the machine you're backing
rsnapshot will also keep as many versions as you configure, .. e.g. seven
days, four weeks, six months, ..

	Lee

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