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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Ownership problem using a CIFS-mounted volume Post 302217837 by mph on Wednesday 23rd of July 2008 03:55:18 PM
Old 07-23-2008
You can use rsync transparently, sort of... That is, if what your looking for is automation, rsync can do it. It's been a couple of years since I did this but I'll take a poke at it.
Setup the variables in a script something like this:
Code:
CFGFILE=/etc/rsyncd.conf
LOGFILE="log file = \/var\/log\/rsync.log"
RUID="uid = 0"
RGID="gid = 0"
AUTHUSR="auth users = root"

You can use either:
PASSWD="root:passwd" (Not roots real password, but one you make up on both boxes for root to use).
Or:
SECRETS="secrets file = \/etc\/rsyncd.secrets" (Make this readable by root only -r--------) This is more secure as
 variables may sometimes be seen by others if exported.  Also it's more secure than using the mount command as 
you'd have to put the user name and password in it for automating the mounting / unmounting of the file systems 
anyway.

In your script you would use something like this:
Code:
rsync -av $EXCLUDES --delete root@$MACH::root/ $BASEDIR/$MACH/full/ \
        2>> $BASEDIR/$MACH/log/$MACH-full-$DATE-error.log \
        | tee -a $BASEDIR/$MACH/log/$MACH-full-$DATE.log

I at one time had a script for backing up several Linux boxes all of which had different configurations as far as excluded files, etc...(this will explain some of the above variables)
Each file contained something like this:
Code:
MACH=unix1
USR=root
OSTYPE=linux
EXCLUDES="--exclude /sys --exclude /initrd/proc --exclude /dev/pts --exclude /proc --exclude /mnt"

The above is set for a full backup. You can also setup sub directories for differentials between full backups. Set up your script to run in cron... and away you go!

Hope this helps.

M.P.H.
 

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sulog

sulog(4)							   File Formats 							  sulog(4)

NAME

       sulog - su command log file

SYNOPSIS

       /var/adm/sulog

DESCRIPTION

       The  sulog file is a record of all attempts by users on the system  to execute the su(1M) command.  Each time  su(1M) is executed, an entry
       is added to the sulog file.

       Each entry in the sulog file is a single line of the form:

	 SU date time
	 result port user-newuser

       where

       date	  The month and date su(1M) was executed.  date is displayed in the form mm/dd where  mm is the month number and  dd  is  the  day
		  number in the month.

       time	  The time  su(1M) was executed. time is displayed in the form	HH/MM where  HH is the hour number (24 hour system) and  MM is the
		  minute number.

       result	  The result of the  su(1M) command.  A ` + ' sign is displayed in this field if the su attempt was successful; otherwise  a ` - '
		  sign is displayed.

       port	  The name of the terminal device from which  su(1M) was executed.

       user	  The user id of the user executing the  su(1M) command.

       newuser	  The user id being switched to with  su(1M).

EXAMPLES

       Example 1 A sample sulog file.

       Here is a sample sulog file:

	 SU 02/25 09:29 + console root-sys
	 SU 02/25 09:32 + pts/3 user1-root
	 SU 03/02 08:03 + pts/5 user1-root
	 SU 03/03 08:19 + pts/5 user1-root
	 SU 03/09 14:24 - pts/5 guest3-root
	 SU 03/09 14:24 - pts/5 guest3-root
	 SU 03/14 08:31 + pts/4 user1-root

FILES

       /var/adm/sulog	  su log file

       /etc/default/su	  contains the default location of  sulog

SEE ALSO

       su(1M)

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