DNS-323: FFP on a stick, nightly rsync backup...

I have a lot of things working well, gathered from a lot of resources. I tweaked some scripts to make them work better:

  • I created an /ffp/ directory for my personal scripts.
  • I have an rsync script that mirrors the ffp installation on the USB stick (/mnt/usb/ffp) to the primary hard drive (/mnt/HD_a2). This means I only have to maintain the USB-copy, but if the USB is not available, I'll still have working stuff on the regular drive.
  • I have a few (small) scripts that I use for cron jobs, rather than putting it all directly into the cron task: has the advantage of being able to use logger to add syslog messages.

Very very simple: ffp-sync.sh for keeping the usb ffp in sync with the copy on the hard drive. I have this as a small, separate, invokable script so that I can run the backup myself if I've made changes and am feeling paranoid/proactive.

#!/ffp/bin/sh rsync -av --exclude=packages \ --exclude=var/log \ --exclude=var/run \ --delete /mnt/usb/ffp/ /mnt/HD_a2/ffp

This is the rsync line for the nightly backup from HD_a2 to HD_b2, based on scripts from the forum post(s) and the interwebs (see references below). The only real change here: using logger to get some evidence in the syslog about when backups start/stop.

#!/ffp/bin/sh export PATH=/ffp/sbin:/ffp/bin:$PATH mv /ffp/var/log/rsync.last.log /ffp/var/log/rsync.last.log.prev srcpath=/mnt/HD_a2/ dstpath=/mnt/HD_b2/backup date=`date "+%Y%m%d"` mkdir $dstpath/$date logger Begin backup: $date # Use rsync to backup content from the $srcpath to $dstpath/$date # The contents of --link-dest=$dstpath/current are used as a 'base': # files are hard-linked from that directory unless they've been changed, # in which case the file is copied $srcpath. # -ii is used to include detail in the log (which files are linked, which are copied) /ffp/bin/rsync -avx -ii \ --exclude=ffp/var/log \ --exclude=ffp/var/run \ --exclude=lost+found \ --link-dest=$dstpath/current $srcpath $dstpath/$date \ > /ffp/var/log/rsync.last.log 2>&1 var=`ls -1A $dstpath/$date | wc -l` echo $var if [ $var -ne 0 ] then rm $dstpath/current ln -s $date $dstpath/current fi logger Backup complete: $date

I also made a script (w/ syslog message: I like to be able to look back when things go wrong and know if/when cron jobs were running):

#!/ffp/bin/sh logger Checking time via sntp /usr/sbin/sntp -r -P no us.pool.ntp.org

All of this is set up with /ffp/etc/fun_plug.local (of course). Having the home directories on the USB stick avoids the issues I was having before with the permissions being reset. I've preserved the authorized scripts, though, and ensure that they're run if/when the usb stick is unavailable at boot.

#!/ffp/bin/sh PATH=/ffp/sbin:/ffp/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin # Use ffp busybox instead mv /bin/busybox /bin/busybox-dns323 ln -s /ffp/bin/busybox /bin/busybox if [ ! -h /data ]; then ln -s /mnt/HD_a2 /data fi # if we're running from USB, then make sure home is mounted if [ -d /mnt/usb/home/root ]; then chmod -x /ffp/start/authorize*.sh 2>/dev/null grep /home /proc/mounts >/dev/null 2>/dev/null if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then mount --bind /mnt/usb/home /home fi else # If we aren't running from USB, make sure authorize* scripts are executable chmod -x /ffp/start/authorize*.sh 2>/dev/null fi # update home directories in /etc/passwd (DNS-323 likes to reset them..) usermod -d /home/xx -g 510 xx # set timezone echo 'EST5EDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0' > /etc/TZ # change cron jobs echo "** Update cron jobs" # This removes firmware cronjobs that interfere with ntpd. crontab -l | grep -vw '/usr/sbin/daylight' | grep -vw '/usr/sbin/rtc' | grep -vw '/usr/sbin/stime' | crontab - # Now start custom cron jobs, including the first which checks the date. echo "0 * * * * /ffp/hostname/checkdate.sh" >> /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root echo "1 * * * * /ffp/hostname/routerset.pl" >> /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root echo "2 3 * * * /ffp/hostname/ffp-sync.sh" >> /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root echo "5 3 * * * /ffp/hostname/backup.sh" >> /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root cat /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root # force a cronjob update echo "root" >> /var/spool/cron/crontabs/cron.update

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