lastcmd="--listed-incremental=$remotesnar"
fi
+ # The file is usually stored to disk with a simple cat > $TARFILE,
+ # but in some cases, like backing up to a remote and untrusted
+ # file system, it could be useful to replace it with e.g.
+ # a GPG command line.
+ if [ -f $confdir/storageprogram.$computer ]; then
+ storageprogram=`cat $confdir/storageprogram.$computer`
+ else
+ storageprogram=cat
+ fi
+
# We try to run tar on the remote computer
# c create archive
# C change to directory first
# 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 -n $username@$computer \"nice -n 19 ionice -c3 tar --one-file-system --use-compress-program $compressor -cf - -C $filesystem . $lastcmd \
- --exclude-from=$remotehome/.backup/exclude\" | pee \"cat > $TARFILE\" \"tar tzvf -\""
+ TARCMD="ssh -n $username@$computer \"$nice tar --one-file-system --use-compress-program $compressor -cf - -C $filesystem . $lastcmd \
+ --exclude-from=$remotehome/.backup/exclude\" | pee \"$storageprogram > $TARFILE\" \"tar tzvf -\""
infomsg "Running $TARCMD"
eval $TARCMD > $DATE.idx
# - No touching of .lastbackup for Nagios.
# - Failed tar operations may go undetected, since we only see the error code
# the last process in the pipe chain, which is gpg.
+# - No storageprogram support (see above), because the file is typically already
+# encrypted.
nonprivbackup()
{
infomsg "$computer:$filesystem $backuplevel non-privileged backup"
compressor=gzip
fi
+# Check if nice and ionice are available
+if ssh -n $username@$computer "nice -n 19 ionice -c3 /bin/true 2>/dev/null"; then
+ nice="nice -n 19 ionice -c3"
+else
+ infomsg "nice and/or ionice missing; will run at normal priority."
+ nice=""
+fi
+
# Check dump bit in fstab
filesystems=`ssh -n $username@$computer "cat /etc/fstab" \
| grep -v nfs \
# Check if this box has a custom number of full backups
if [ -f $confdir/maksfulle.$computer.$sfilesystem ]; then
- mf=$((`cat $confdir/maksfulle.$computer`+1))
+ mf=$((`cat $confdir/maksfulle.$computer.$sfilesystem`+1))
elif [ -f $confdir/maksfulle.$computer ] ; then
mf=$((`cat $confdir/maksfulle.$computer`+1))
else