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Rebooting did the trick.

df: `/mnt/backup': Input/output error

/mnt/backup is a seperate NAS backup disk provided by my dedicated server provider.

#!/bin/bash
cp -r -f /home/dir1/public_html/ /mnt/backup/dir1/
cp -r -f /var/lib/mysql/ /mnt/backup/database
cp -r -f /home/dir2/public_html/ /mnt/backup/dir2
cp -r -f /home/dir3/public_html/...

I've been successfully running a daily cron script to backup certain things on my server but just recently I started getting input/output errors for everything. For each directory the script tries to...

Wow, thanks RTM, your quick walkthrough was a massive help for helping me get a quick grasp on how things work. Now, my next question for this:

How do I input multiple commands to execute? (does...

Doh, my apologies about the rules. I'll take a look at this and then post back later one. Thanks! :)

Okay...I just can't get this to work. Any chance somebody could contact me via AIM or MSN and walk me through this?

I'm very familiar with PHP but not with how you can use it to create shell scripts. I'm running Linux and am running PERL 5.8.4 and PHP 4.3.10

I have no idea what that means.

Alright...well nobody has a response...fantastic.

I know how to copy files (I mentioned that in my post) and setup cron jobs (I mentioned that too). I need help past that.

So I have a set of directories and files that I need to backup from /directory1/ to /directory2/ each night. I have some UNIX/SSH knowledge but don't assume I know a whole lot b/c I would hate to...

Yeah, I'm the owner. The files/directories that give me that message are CHMOD 700 and 750. One is the /www/ directory and the other is a directory in my /tmp/ directory.

So your third option is the same thing as me doing:

cp -r -f /directory1/ ../backup/directory1/
cp -r -f /directory2/ ../backup/directory2/
cp -r -f /directory3/ ../backup/directory3/

just in...

Another Unix question. How would I copy multiple directories at the same time? Right now I do:

cp -r -f /directory1/ ../backup/directory1/

I do that for each directory one at a time. But there...

I'm kicking Unix questions out like Bruce Lee. So I'm copying a directory of files, in each directory I inevitablly get this:


I get that for usually the same set of directories/files in each...