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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting computing go/no-go dates in script Post 302069068 by thumper on Wednesday 22nd of March 2006 11:50:42 AM
Old 03-22-2006
computing go/no-go dates in script
I am working on a bash script to backup selected servers and am trying to come up with a simpler solution to this problem:

Each server to be backed up has a config file that is read by the script, in the config file are the following values:
LEVEL0=12 #this is the day of the month on which level zero backups are performed.
INTERVAL=3: #In this case every 3 days before or after the LEVEL0 date an interval backup will be performed.

The LEVEL0 and INTERVAL values will be different for different servers.

I could just write a loop to compute if the current day is a day on which to perform an interval backup but it seems that there must be a simpler way to calculate this.

If anyone can point me in the right direction I would appreciate it very much.
 

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bbackupd-config

BBACKUPD-CONFIG(8)						    Box Backup							BBACKUPD-CONFIG(8)

NAME

       bbackupd-config - Box Backup client daemon configuration file generator

SYNOPSIS

       bbackupd-config config-dir backup-mode account-num server-hostname working-dir backup-dir [backup-dir ...]

DESCRIPTION

       The bbackupd-config script creates configuration files and client certificates. It takes at least six parameters:

       config-dir
	   Configuration directory. Usually /etc/box.

       backup-mode
	   Either lazy or snapshot.

       account-num
	   The client account number. This is set by the bbstored administrator.

       server-hostname
	   The hostname or IP address of the bbstored server.

       working-dir
	   A directory to keep temporary state files. This is usually something like /var/bbackupd. This can be changed in bbackupd.conf later on
	   if required.

       backup-dir
	   A space-separated list of directories to be backed up. Note that this does not traverse mount points.

FILES

       /etc/box/bbackupd.conf

       /etc/box/bbackupd/NotifySysAdmin.sh

SEE ALSO

       bbackupd.conf(5), bbackupd(8), bbackupctl(8)

AUTHORS

       Ben Summers

       Per Thomsen

       James O'Gorman

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