Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello,

I have a CentOS server that contains a 'storage' directory. Within that directory, there could be any number of subfolders (all with unique names that match usernames).

Under each username folder, there are two additional folders: db and files

/STORAGE/user1/db/
/STORAGE/user1/files/
/STORAGE/user2/db/
/STORAGE/user2/files/
/STORAGE/user3/db/
/STORAGE/user3/files/
...
etc

I was hoping to get help with a script that will copy the contents of each DB folder for each user to a zip archive named with the date and time. Then I would also need a script that would allow me to extract any given zip file and put the files back in the original location:

BACKUP SCRIPT:

Capture /STORAGE/user1/db/, /STORAGE/user2/db/, /STORAGE/user3/db/ etc to one ZIP file called YYYY-MM-DD 00:00:00.zip.

RESTORE SCRIPT
Extract contents of ZIP file and restore the contents to /STORAGE/user1/db/, etc.

If there's a way to script this without having to list each username in the script that would be great as they change frequently. The two things that are constant is that they're always under the /STORAGE folder and they always have a /db and /files subfolder.

Thank you a MILLION in advance - scripting is definitely not my strong suit.

If zip is not only archiver, you can pack with:

Code:

tar -cf `date`.tar /STORAGE/*/db /STORAGE/*/files

and unpack with

Code:

tar -xf filenameyouneed.tar

Thank you! That will actually work perfectly. One question on the extraction - will it put the files back in the same subdirectories and replace the existing ones or do I need to specify a location to extract to?

Thank you!

Code:

tar -xf filenameyouneed.tar -C /

will extract the files to their original location overwriting existing ones