Backup and Restore the complete file system

[pentolino]

I will make a few recovery tries (hope I don't have to do a proper one for a long time!); this should be quick enough for me, since I am not loosing money or risking lives

Thanks for your help

[maxim]

Thanks eljohnsmith and slycat for this great script and idea! Works really good.

I modified the perform-the-backup-part, so you don't have to recreate the directories when you restore. I also added /tmp and /run to the exclude option, because they're also populated at boot.

And removed the verbose flag

Thanks again!

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
#! /bin/bash
# script to create a tar backup file
# of the pogo plug device

# directory to place backups
BACKUPDIR=/media/mybook/backup/POGO

# file name YYYY-MM-DDHH:MM:SS.tgz
BACKUPNAME=`date +%F%T`.tgz

# remove dashes and colons from file name
BACKUPNAME=${BACKUPNAME//[-|:]/}

# root directory for the backup
SOURCE=/

# number of sets to keep
NUMSETS=5

# perform the backup
tar -cpzf $BACKUPDIR/$BACKUPNAME \
--exclude=/proc/* \
--exclude=/mnt/* \
--exclude=/sys/* \
--exclude=/dev/* \
--exclude=/tmp/* \
--exclude=/run/* \
--exclude=/lost+found \
--exclude=/media/* \
$SOURCE

# delete older files greater than $NUMSET
cd $BACKUPDIR
LINS=$((NUMSETS + 1))
if [[ $(ls $BACKUPDIR | wc -l) > $NUMSETS ]]
then
stat -c "%Y %n" * | sort -rn | tail -n +"$LINS" | \
cut -d ' ' -f 1 --complement | xargs -d '\n' rm
fi

')

[jerry0000]

This script works nicely, however gives the leading "/" warning.

[kochin]

In order to get rid of those annoying "tar: Removing leading `/' from member names" warnings, I had to modify the tar command to become
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'tar -C $SOURCE -cpzf $BACKUPDIR/$BACKUPNAME \
--exclude=proc/* \
--exclude=mnt/* \
--exclude=sys/* \
--exclude=dev/* \
--exclude=tmp/* \
--exclude=run/* \
--exclude=lost+found \
--exclude=media/* \
`ls $SOURCE`')