Hi,

I have the following script that does a backup via cpio to an NFS mount. The problem is that I only seem to be getting root. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here but it is not working. Following is the entire script. I've highlighted the areas where I think I have a problem or are at least relevant, I think.

#!/bin/sh
#
# Set configuration variables
#
NFSMOUNT='/mnt/nfs'
BACKUP_LOG='/usr/local/backup_logs'
EXCLUDE_FS='/mnt/nfs'
HARDWARE_LOG='/var/adm/messages'

export NFSMOUNT BACKUP_LOG EXCLUDE_FS HARDWARE_LOG

# Get date in MMDDYY format
MDY=`date +%m%d%y`

if [ ! -d ${BACKUP_LOG} -o ! -w ${BACKUP_LOG} ]; then
echo "${BACKUP_LOG} doesn't exist or isn't writable"
exit 1
fi

echo "### Backup starting at `date`"
# LOG_START is the number of lines in our hardware log
# when the backup began. We're not concerned with anything
# that occurred before now.
LOG_START=`wc -l < ${HARDWARE_LOG}`
# Strip leading and trailing spaces

LOG_START=`expr ${LOG_START}`

BACKUPTYPE="cpio"

# Get list of unix file systems to back up
MOUNTEDSYSTEMS=`df -F ufs | cut -d' ' -f1 | sort`
# Remove excluded file systems from list
for FS in $MOUNTEDSYSTEMS
do
case " ${EXCLUDE_FS} " in
# If its excluded do nothing
*" ${FS} "*);;
# Add entry to list
*) case "${FILESYSTEMS}" in
# List is empty so this is the first entry
'') FILESYSTEMS="${FS}";;
# List contains entries so append to list
*) FILESYSTEMS="${FILESYSTEMS} ${FS}";;
esac;;
esac
done
cd /
if [ "$BACKUPTYPE" = "dump" ]; then
# Backup using dump
for FS in ${FILESYSTEMS}
do
echo "Dumping ${FS} ${NFSMOUNT}" | \
tee -a ${BACKUP_LOG}/bu.ufsdump.${MDY}
/usr/sbin/ufsdump 0fu ${NFSMOUNT} ${FS} 2>&1 | \
# we're only concerned with the last two lines of output
#to determine if this was a successful dump
tee -a ${BACKUP_LOG}/bu.ufsdump.${MDY} | tail -3

# Count dump of file system
FS_COUNT=`expr ${FS_COUNT} + 1`
done
else

#Backup using cpio
for FS in ${FILESYSTEMS}
do
echo "Writing cpio archive of ${FS} to ${NFSMOUNT}" |\
tee -a ${BACKUP_LOG}/bu.cpio.${MDY}.err \
>> ${BACKUP_LOG}/bu.cpio.${MDY}

# The output of find will always be relative to root
find .${FS} -print -xdev | \

# Use sed to change "./" back to "/" so Solaris cpio won't bark
sed -e 's/^\.\/$/\//' | \
cpio -oc -O ${NFSMOUNT}/`hostname`.${MDY} \
2>> ${BACKUP_LOG}/bu.cpio.${MDY}.err \
1>> ${BACKUP_LOG}/bu.cpio.${MDY}

# count cpio archive of file system
FS_COUNT=`expr ${FS_COUNT} + 1`
done
cat ${BACKUP_LOG}/bu.cpio.${MDY}.err
fi

# Display filesystem information that was just backed up
echo "### Currently mounted file systems:"
df -k ${FILESYSTEMS}
echo "###"

LOG_END=`wc -l < ${HARDWARE_LOG}`
# strip leading and trailing spaces
LOG_END=`expr ${LOG_END}`
if [ "${LOG_BEGIN}" -ne "${LOG_END}" ]; then
# Report errors in log during backup
# add additional grep lines to remove normal messages appearing in your
# system logging script
echo "### System logs generated during backup:"
cat ${HARDWARE_LOG} | \
sed -e "1,${LOG_START}d" | \
grep -v "connect from " | \
grep v "refused connection from " | \
nawk '{ print substr($0,1,78) }; \
length > 78 { print " " substr ($0,79) }'

echo "###"
fi
# Remove old log files
if [ "${BACKUPTYPE}" = "cpio" ]; then
cd ${BACKUP_LOG}
find . -mtime +14 -follow -exec rm {} \;
ls -lt ${BACKUP_LOG}/*
echo
fi

echo "Backup Finished at " `date`

What are the symtoms? It's a bit hard to guess where you are going wrong just by looking at the code.

I noticed a minor problem in here:

You are requiring EXCLUDE_FS to have spaces on both sides in order for this to match, but you don't seem to have those spaces up there were you are assigning EXCLUDE_FS. Either expand the "case" code to handle matches at beginning, end, and alone; or add those spaces to the assignment. (The latter is easier, but more likely to go unnoticed by someone who quickly updates the exclude list later.)

The case where you are updating FILESYSTEMS seems needlessly complicated. Adding a space at the beginning of the list if it's empty seems harmless, judging from what you do with it later in the code.

Me, I would turn EXCLUDE_FS into a regular expression, and filter the output of df through egrep, and get rid of that whole blob of code, anyway.

What's the point of exporting all those variables? You're not invoking subcommands which need them, are you?

You seem to lack a dash in front of the option here:

Can't see what's wrong with the CPIO part, sorry.

Proper indentation would probably help a bit here, too ...