BressenReportScript

From RdiffBackupWiki

written some crude but functional scripts to run my backups and mail me important stuff. Below is the script that strips out unimportant stuff from rdiff-backup output. It is invoked as follows:

  # run the backups and shove output into a file
  /some/path/backup-script >/var/logs/backups/backup-`date +%Y-%m-%d` 2>&1
  # run the backup-report generator and mail the output someplace
  /some/path/backup-report /var/logs/backups/backup-`date +%Y-%m-%d` || 
    mail -s "`hostname` Backup Report `date +%Y-%m-%d`" 
myaddress@mydomain.foo
  # compress the output file
  bzip2 /var/logsbackups/backup-`date +%Y-%m-%d`

I typically invoke rdiff-backup at -v6.

Here's the report generator:

#====/bin/sh
===
# backup-report
# a crude backup report munger
# akb 05-jun-2003
#   most recent mods 19-jan-04.

grep -v "^Executing ssh -C" $1 || 

## rdiff-backup 0.13.x...
grep -v "^  Access control lists.*Off"            || 
grep -v "^  Characters needing quoting.*''"     || 
grep -v "^  Directory inc permissions.*On"        || 
grep -v "^  Extended attributes.*Off"             || 
grep -v "^  Hard linking.*On"                     || 
grep -v "^  Mac OS X Finder information.*Off"     || 
grep -v "^  Mac OS X style resource forks.*Off"   || 
grep -v "^  Ownership changing.*On"               || 
grep -v "^  fsync() directories.*On"              || 
grep -v "^########## /"                          || 
grep -v "^--------------------------------
---------------------------------"  || 
grep -v "^ACLs not supported on filesystem at /" || 
grep -v "^Detected abilities for destination (read/write) file system:" 
|-
| 
grep -v "^Detected abilities for source (read only) file system:" || 
grep -v "^Removing directory .*"                  || 
grep -v "^Starting increment operation .''' to .'''"  || 
grep -v "^Unable to import module posix1e from pylibacl package."    || 
grep -v "^Unable to import module xattr.  EAs not supported on filesystem 
at /.*" || 
grep -v "^Hard linking .''' to .'''" || 
## rdiff-backup 0.12.x and 0.13.x
grep -v "^Cleaning up" || 
grep -v "^Incrementing mirror file" || 
grep -v "^Making directory .*" || 
grep -v "^Processing changed file .*" || 
grep -v "^Regular copying" || 
grep -v "^Touching mirror marker"