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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell Script Post 302527705 by click on Saturday 4th of June 2011 05:55:35 PM
Old 06-04-2011
With the above provided script(the one written by itkamaraj) you ask the user for backup destination directory and move the file there, this is not needed and probaly will confuse the user.

You can just easily ask them for destination(as you did) and create the archive there

Example:

Code:
while true
do
    echo "Choose an option"
    echo "1. Backup"
    echo "2. Restore"
    echo -en "\nEnter your choice : "
    read choice
    
    case $choice in 
        
        1)     echo -n "Enter the backup filename: "
            read filename
            echo -n "Enter the Directory Name : "
            read dir_name
            tar -czvf filename $dir_name/$filename.$(date +%Y%m%d)-backup.tar.gz
            echo "$filename moved successfully to $dir_name"

        2)  echo -n "Enter the destination (directory name) : "
        read dir_name
            echo -n "Backups in $dir_name:"
            ls -al $dir_name
            echo -n "Enter the filename to restore : "
            read filename
            tar -xzvf $filename $dir_name

        *)    echo "Choose the Correct choice (1/2)"
    esac
done

On the backup "log" the -v flag of the tar command shows every file that goes into the archive example:

Code:
[root@yorkfield Downloads]# ll
total 0
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Jun  5 00:50 1
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Jun  5 00:50 2
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Jun  5 00:50 3
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Jun  5 00:50 4
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Jun  5 00:50 6
[root@yorkfield Downloads]# 
[root@yorkfield Downloads]# tar -czvf test.tar.gz ./*
./1
./2
./3
./4
./6


Last edited by click; 06-04-2011 at 07:05 PM..
 

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PPPOE-START(8)						      System Manager's Manual						    PPPOE-START(8)

NAME
pppoe-start - Shell script to bring up a PPPoE link SYNOPSIS
pppoe-start [config_file] pppoe-start interface user [config_file] DESCRIPTION
pppoe-start is a shell script which starts the Roaring Penguin user-space PPPoE client. If you omit config_file, the default file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 is used. If you supply interface and user, then they override the Ethernet interface and user- name settings in the configuration file. AUTHOR
pppoe-start was written by David F. Skoll <dfs@roaringpenguin.com>. The pppoe home page is http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/. SEE ALSO
pppoe(8), pppoe-stop(8), pppoe-connect(8), pppd(8), pppoe.conf(5), pppoe-setup(8), pppoe-status(8), pppoe-sniff(8), pppoe-relay(8), pppoe- server(8) 4th Berkeley Distribution 21 February 2000 PPPOE-START(8)
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