Re: counting shell args

[johnjulian1@netscape.net]

Just a note responding to your comment about this being for backing up windows boxes. I back up ours with a script that does it in steps testing for errors along the way.
ping winbox
mount winbox /mnt/winbox
rsync /mnt/winbox user@remotebox

this doesn't compress but does give me a lot of error checking. The remote box in my case is a Solaris box with a big raid and tape jukebox.

If you're interested I'll email you the script.

Mike Dresser <mdresser_l@windsormachine.com> wrote:

>On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Scott Taylor wrote:
>
>> That should be very useful to know. :)
>>
>> Now you have me curious (grr...I just got over that) why do you care if
>> there are more than 25 blocks in your zipped file?
>
>If it dumps out a zero byte file, as part of the pipe gzip will go gzip
>it, and it ends up being 20 bytes.  As far as smbtar is concerned,
>that's a valid output, and returns 0 error code.  It was easier to put
>down 25 than figure out if that's 25 bytes or 25 kilobytes.
>
>If it's a zero return code, AND the file is over 25(k), then the script
>rotates the backups, otherwise reports via email that there was a backup
>failure on that particular machine.  Once in awhile I'll get one of those
>partial backups, and that's what the previous full daily backups are for.
>
>If i get two or so in a row, I go hunting down why the machine is
>failing(is it just turned off, is the ethernet unplugged AGAIN, did the
>hard drive die last Friday and the user hasn't called me after 4 days to
>tell me their computer is broken?)
>
>Are we still on topic? :D
>
>Mike
>
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