Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 22:00:58 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Alvaro <starthir@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail with attachment sent by cron Message-ID: <20020517190058.GE10253@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20020517140823.38069.qmail@web14607.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020517140823.38069.qmail@web14607.mail.yahoo.com>
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On 2002-05-17 07:08, Alvaro wrote: > Hello all, > > I want to make a backup of critical directories but > I'm saving it in the same server! So, i want to send > an email, with these backup files, to have a copy > elsewhere. How can I do this using cron? mail(1) > doesn't let me add an attachment (well, I didn't find > out how to do it ;P). > > Any ideas? A program/script that does this? Why don't you write a script that simply writes the backup of the files in a proper directory? Something like the following perhaps? #!/bin/sh cd /etc tar cf - . | gzip -9c /backup/etc.tgz if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then cd /backup mv etc-today.tgz etc-yesterday.tgz mv etc.tgz etc-today.tgz fi (This is an example, and it's meant to be just that ... an example. Don't come hunting after me, if you use it verbatim or modified, and you find out that because of some mistake, you lost data. When you run this or other commands as root, you should take special care to understand exactly what the commands you're running are going to do.) Then you can call this from your system's crontab (see the file /etc/crontab and the crontab(5) manual page) and have it save the backups of the files where they're supposed to go. This is safer than passing huge files to your mail server's queue and forcing it to deliver it to a local account IMHO. -- Giorgos Keramidas - http://www.FreeBSD.org keramida@FreeBSD.org - The Power to Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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