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From: che@ptsfb.UUCP (Mitch Che )
Newsgroups: net.micro.att,net.bugs.usg
Subject: 3B2 incremental backup problem
Message-ID: <241@ptsfb.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 13:14:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: ptsfb.241
Posted: Mon Oct  7 13:14:28 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 10-Oct-85 06:03:58 EDT
Organization: Pacific Bell, San Francisco
Lines: 24
Keywords: 3B2, backup, missing files
Xref: linus net.micro.att:620 net.bugs.usg:329

For 3B2 administrators: If you're doing backups using the "Simple 
Administration" (sysadm), there is a small problem with /etc/savecpio 
which may lead you to miss backing up important files.  This script
does a find on each mounted file system for updated or new files, pipes the
list to sed (to remove any exceptions contained in /etc/save.d/timestamp/
except), and stores this list in a /tmp file.  The problem is that this file
should be APPENDED to, not overwritten, otherwise only the last file
system is backed up...  To save your sanity, change > to >> in this line
in the /etc/savecpio script:

	find ${dirlist} -type f -newer ${DIR} -print  |
		sed -f /tmp/$$.3.save >>/tmp/$$.2.save

Also, while you're there check the lines that remove the /tmp files.
They should read rm /tmp/$$.*.save, not rm /tmp/$$.save*.  Ever wonder
where those 40 /tmp files came from?  Sloppy coding, AT&T.

-- 
Mitch Che
Pacific Bell
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