Some minor changes that were done without checking out from RCS.

[backup.sh] / backup.sh

diff --git a/backup.sh b/backup.sh
index 75c030841688ebc6792e64875142a11f81aabdcf..a76baf99d8432b6d2dcac06d77b95ebf6d4bf568 100755 (executable)
--- a/backup.sh
+++ b/backup.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+#!/bin/bash
 # backup.sh
 # 
 # Backup up Unix-like computers
@@ -12,13 +12,13 @@
 # mind when hacking:
 #
 # KISS. And by that I mean really simple. Only regular Unix commands, please
-# (but GNU extensions are used).
+# (but GNU extensions are used and moreutils has to be installed).
 #
 # Because of the way we run this script from cron, informational logging goes
 # to stderr and warnings and errors to stdout. This way, we get mail whenever
 # stuff fails, and other output is redirected to the log file.
 # 
-# The computers are backed up in parallell (but the filesystems on each
+# The computers are backed up in parallel (but the filesystems on each
 # computer in serial). This is implemented highly simplistic, with forking
 # subshells. The script has no concept about threads, and stuff might go wrong,
 # which usually requires manual cleanups.
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ backup()
  #    Pipe the stuff over ssh to ourselves, run pee to cat the contents to a
  #    file and build a file list, respectivly.  
  TARFILE=$DATE.tmp
- TARCMD="ssh root@$computer \"tar --one-file-system -zcf - -C $filesystem . $lastcmd \
+ TARCMD="ssh root@$computer \"nice -n 19 ionice -c3 tar --one-file-system -zcf - -C $filesystem . $lastcmd \
        --exclude-from=$exf\" | pee \"cat > $TARFILE\" \"tar tzvf -\""
  echo `date`" $computer: Running $TARCMD" >&2
  eval $TARCMD > $DATE.idx