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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Requesting full back up scripts Post 302380248 by burnie35 on Monday 14th of December 2009 03:54:04 PM
Old 12-14-2009
i am hoping to start a linux college course next year but wanted to have some experience before starting so got some past papers from a college student i know on some linux course questions (a few years old) and working through them. the edited question is a company wishes to to develop a new utility which will aid the users in backing up and restoring files in their own personal directory area. in doing this development, it should be recognised that script files are treated like any other i.e. they should be stored in a directory called scriptfiles.
only one utility is to be developed
the utility will give the user the option to back upor restore a set of files
the utility will give the user the ability to specify which type of file is to be used in particular back up or restore session.
the utility should be robust with respect to files and directories and the possible overwriting of files
i'm sorry for the size of the question but did not know what to leave out
thanks for any help
 

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LEARN ABOUT OSF1

genufi

genufi(8)						      System Manager's Manual							 genufi(8)

NAME

       genufi - Generates a User File Inventory (UFI) file

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/bin/genufi

DESCRIPTION

       The genufi utility creates a User File Inventory (UFI) file that contains the names of user files created or copied to your system after an
       installation.  Some of these files reside on file systems that are overwritten during a new installation of the operating system. You  must
       have superuser privileges to run the genufi utility, and you must invoke the genufi utility from the /usr/.smdb.  directory.

       To  create the UFI file, the genufi utility checks the Master Synchronization Inventory (MSI) file created by the invsync utility to deter-
       mine which file systems will be overwritten by a complete installation.	The genufi utility searches those file systems for user files  and
       writes these entries to the UFI file.  File systems that remain intact during a new installation of the operating system are not searched.

       The  genufi utility also filters out certain files and directories that would not commonly be considered for backup.  For example, some log
       files, installation files, and temporary directories do not need to be restored after a complete installation and are not  written  to  the
       UFI file.

       The following directories are not included:

       /tmp /tmp /usr/.smdb.  /usr/sys/HOST /var/adm/smlogs /var/adm/syslog.dated /var/rwho /var/tmp

       In the previous list, HOST represents the hostname of the system (such as /usr/sys/BLUTO) on the system named bluto.

       The following files are not included:

       */core */*.dummy */.new..  /osf_boot */.profile */.proto..  /var/adm/binary.errlog /var/adm/xdm/xdm-pid */vmcore /*vmunix

       Edit  the  UFI  file  to remove the entries for files and directories that you do not want to back up. The UFI file is written in the setld
       inventory file format.  Refer to the stl_inv(4) reference page for more information.

RESTRICTIONS

       You must have superuser privileges to run the genufi utility.

       You must invoke the genufi utility from the /usr/.smdb.	directory.

FILES

       Master Synchronization Inventory file User File Inventory file

SEE ALSO

       ils(8), invsync(8), udelta(8), udetect(8), updmv(8), usync stl_inv(4)

																	 genufi(8)
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