remote server backup script 3048

Peter T. Breuer

I have tried afbackup, amanda, kbackup, and varous other scripts. (actually Kbackup is what's doing the back ups right now, then I have to ssh into the clients fileserver, and download it into a directory that I created on our server with the date) well, by directly labeling the file above you kind of made this not needed. I was just going to do it, since it would automatically change the name of the folder to the date and all new backups would go to another folder. logic? is that a better word? If that doesn't suit your needs, how about your pick up?

Hey, I didn't ask for you to do the work for me, if you have a problem with people asking questions then why are you on newsgroups? and why did you reply? I had a problem, and wanted to know if anyone had any experince with a simlair problem, or if my above "logic"(change word to suit your own needs as needed) made sense.

if you can help, then help..if not or if your going to unpleasant woman then don't bother answering people's questions. At the debian mailing list we get litterally hundreds of posts a day, and no one there is rude, no matter how basic the question or how many times asked.

So i didn't put any effort, tell me where to start then, please? any books? websites? I know how to back up, using tar(and now thanks to you, i know how to back up incremental. and also now thanks to you, again, I know how to name the backup file automatically. I already knew how to ssh into a machine without a username and pbuttword(saving the server ssh key on the clients machine). So what else do i need?

The one thing i can't figure out, is how to send the email actually, I normally know how to send emails when commands are successful from command line, but i am not sure how to do it if it sftped corrected. I mean, if i do it based on $? (exit status) then i may get succesful everytime since the script exits the ssh server correctly. I don't know how to script it once i'm sftped in. How to exit the ssh server via a script.

maybe i'll have to show some "effort" and practice it right?