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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting mac backup script in leopard Post 302206796 by woodgie on Wednesday 18th of June 2008 12:41:04 PM

06-18-2008

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Originally Posted by Billy T

Hi all

I had a nice simple backup script on my mac running Tiger. I used an Automator 'Run Shell Script' command that loaded psync and backed up one directory on an external drive to a directory on another external drive. This was the command

/usr/local/bin/runpsync 0 0 0 '/Volumes/PORT80/Data Transfer' '/Volumes/BILL RAID/iPod Backup'

It only copied updated files, so it was fast and suited my needs very nicely. Unfortunately, psync no longer appears to work in leopard so I am looking for a new solution that is equally simple. I have checked out RSyncX and it seems very close to what I want but I can't work out how to extract a similar shell script to the one I had working before

Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance

PS I know very little about shell scripting

Well, there's plain old rsync which can be called from the command line and after a few, shall we say 'interesting' problems with it in Tiger Apple seem to have a stable version in Leopard. It also now properly handles resource forks which as a Mac user is very important (though getting less so). man rsync reveals that '-E' is the important option here.

There's also the most brilliant Carbon Copy Cloner from the venerable Mike Bombich. Don't ask me about it's scriptability though. Having said that his site is just about the last word when it comes to imaging etc. on the Mac. I'm sure you'll find something there to help you.

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mount_ftp

MOUNT_FTP(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					      MOUNT_FTP(8)

NAME

     mount_ftp -- mount a FTP filesystem

SYNOPSIS

     mount_ftp [-i] [-o options] ftp://host[:port][/path] node

DESCRIPTION

     The mount_ftp command mounts a FTP-enabled server directory at ftp://host[:port][/path] at the mount point indicated by node.

     If the -i option is not used, all the required information to establish a login to the remote server must be available in the ftp URL,
     including username & password if needed.

     The user ID for all files and folders is set to the user's real user ID. The group ID for all files and directories is set to unknown, and
     the permissions default to read and execute for user, group and other.

     The options are:

     -i      Interactive mode, you are prompted for the username and password if you did not supply one in the url.

     -o      Options passed to mount(2) are specified with the -o option followed by a comma separated string of options. See the mount(8) man
	     page for possible options and their meanings. The rdonly option will be set even if it was not specified because mount_ftp does not
	     allow files to be opened with write access on servers.

     ftp://host[:port][/path]
	     The FTP-enabled server directory to mount as a volume. If port is not specified, then port 21 is used. If path is not specified, then
	     the path "/" is used.

     node    Path to mount point.

EXAMPLES

     The following example illustrates how to mount the FTP-enabled server directory ftp.apple.com/ at the mount point /Volumes/mntpnt/

	   mount_ftp ftp://ftp.apple.com/ /Volumes/mntpnt/

SEE ALSO

     mount(2), unmount(2), mount(8)

HISTORY

     The mount_ftp command first appeared Mac OS X Version 10.2.

RETURN VALUES

     0			mount_ftp successfully mounted the server directory.

     [ENOENT]		The server directory could not be mounted by mount_ftp because the node path is invalid.

     [ENODEV]		The server directory could not be mounted by mount_ftp because it is not FTP-enabled or because it does not exist, or
			because node does not have proper access.

     [ECANCELED]	The server directory could not be mounted by mount_ftp because the user did not provide proper authentication credentials.

BUGS

     mount_ftp only supports mounting read-only.

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