backup using script imp files linux

Many time we come across situation to take a backup of file daily/weekly or sometime every hour .

Yes it may be that your filesystem are auto backuped by your backup tools as Snapshot/Veritas netbackup etc.. but still we always come across situation to that we want our some critical file (/etc/passwd, /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf etc..)  that had changed 1 hour back .

Below a small and simple script that can help us a way .. just schedule this in your crontab .. as per your requirement .

## MyBackup.sh

#!/bin/bash
#Shirish Shukla
#######################################
## Files to be backuped
Sources="/etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/shadow"
## Backup Save at Target:
Targetpath=/usr/Backup
#######################################
if [ ! -d $Target-path ]
then
    mkdir -p $Targetpath
fi
#######################################
create=`date +%a-%d-%b-%Y-AT:%H:%M`
delete=`date --date '1 month ago' +%a-%d-%b-%Y`
#######################################
for fles in `echo $Sources`
do
   fle=`echo $fles | sed  "s/,//g"`
    if [ ! -e $fle ]
    then
          echo "file: $fle not EXIST"
    fi
    lst=` echo $fle | awk -F"/" '{print $NF}'`
    tar -jcf $Targetpath/$lst-$create.bz2 $fle
done
#######################################
## Now delete 1 month old backups if exists any
rm -fr  $Targetpath/*$delete*
#######################################

## Check Backup

# ls -lrt  /usr/Backup/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 500 Feb 11 11:47 shadow-Sat-11-Feb-2012-AT:11:47.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 938 Feb 11 11:47 passwd-Sat-11-Feb-2012-AT:11:47.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 500 Feb 11 11:47 group-Sat-11-Feb-2012-AT:11:47.bz2

## Schedule crontab to take it 2 hour

# chmod 755 /root/MyBackup.sh
# crontab -e
01  */2 * * *  /root/MyBackup.sh

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> Shirish Shukla