Re: Automatic Backup Script Help

2012-05-23 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Craig A. Adams wrote: > Thank you for the feedback Jon. :-) > > > On 23/05/2012 09:12 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: >> >>   { sleep 60; /data/backups/scripts/backup-disk-1.sh }& >> >> But I don't see why you even need the sleep. > > > I agree. I suspect using sleep will m

Re: Automatic Backup Script Help

2012-05-23 Thread Craig A. Adams
Thank you for the feedback Jon. :-) On 23/05/2012 09:12 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: { sleep 60; /data/backups/scripts/backup-disk-1.sh }& But I don't see why you even need the sleep. I agree. I suspect using sleep will merely suspend udev operations as well. should be backticks here so that d

Re: Automatic Backup Script Help

2012-05-23 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 08:30:29AM +0200, Craig A. Adams wrote: > /data/backups/scripts/start-disk-1.sh > #!/bin/bash > echo /data/backups/scripts/backup-disk-1.sh | at now + 1 minute > > Is this the correct way to call the backup script, or is there a better way? It doesn't seem like a bad idea;

Automatic Backup Script Help

2012-05-22 Thread Craig A. Adams
Hi, I am trying to setup a basic backup script for a Debian 6.0.5 server and am wanting to validate the scripts I have so far. Here is the scenario... The server has 2 x 1Tb hard drives in RAID 1 config. A third 1Tb hard drive is used for scheduled rsync snapshots. I also have 5 x USB 3.0