Got an portable external hd which im going to format with FAT32

 

What i am looking for is basically a user script that i can simply click

from ummenu/user scripts

 

I want it to backup

 

/unraid/home

/unraid/pictures

/unraid/flash

 

to the external hd in dated backup folders (see example below)

 

backup[date] (and within in this folder are subfolders)

home

pictures

flash

 

 

this is just a rough script i put together just now...

could someone bit more linux minded have a quick look

 

mkdir /mnt/exthd

mount /dev/sde /mnt/exthd

mkdir /exthd/`backup '+%m%d%y'`

cp -r /unraid/home/* /exthd/`backup '+%m%d%y'`/home

cp -r /unraid/pictures/* /exthd/`backup '+%m%d%y'`/pictures

cp -r /unraid/flash/* /exthd/`backup '+%m%d%y'`/flash

umount /dev/sde

this is just a rough script i put together just now...

could someone bit more linux minded have a quick look

 

mkdir /mnt/exthd

mount /dev/sde /mnt/exthd

mkdir /exthd/`backup '+%m%d%y'`

cp -r /unraid/home/* /exthd/`backup '+%m%d%y'`/home

cp -r /unraid/pictures/* /exthd/`backup '+%m%d%y'`/pictures

cp -r /unraid/flash/* /exthd/`backup '+%m%d%y'`/flash

umount /dev/sde

When mounting the external drive you'll need to give the file system type in the mount command.  You'll also need to use the correct partition name, not the device name.

 

So... if the disk is /dev/sde, the partition name (of its first partition)  will probably be /dev/sde1 and the mount command

mount -t vfat /dev/sde1 /mnt/exthd

 

the umount command would then be

umount /dev/sde1

 

the "cp" commands are wrong too  There is no /unraid directory.  Instead they should be referencing /mnt/user

cp -r /mnt/user/home/* /exthd/`backup '+%m%d%y'`/home

cp -r /mnt/user/pictures/* /exthd/`backup '+%m%d%y'`/pictures

cp -r /mnt/user/flash/* /exthd/`backup '+%m%d%y'`/flash

Check out the add-on SNAP.

ok, still having problems...

 

#!/bin/bash

mkdir -p /mnt/exthd/`date '+%d%m%y'`/{home,pictures,music,flash}

mount -t vfat /dev/sdg1 /mnt/exthd

cp -r /mnt/user/home/* /mnt/exthd/`date '+%d%m%y'`/home

cp -r /mnt/user/pictures/* /mnt/exthd/`date '+%d%m%y'`/pictures

cp -r /mnt/user/music/* /mnt/exthd/`date '+%d%m%y'`/music

cp -r /boot/* /mnt/exthd/`date '+%d%m%y'`/flash

umount /dev/sdg1

rm -rf /mnt/exthd

 

when i invididually put in these commands through terminal one by one it works

but then i run as a script it creates folders with a \r

 

e.g.

 

/mnt/exthd/250911/pictures\r

/mnt/exthd/250911/home\r

/mnt/exthd/250911/music\r

/mnt/exthd/250911/flash\r

 

the culprit is this command

mkdir -p /mnt/exthd/`date '+%d%m%y'`/{home,pictures,music,flash}

 

it just does not work in a script but works fine but inputting it into terminal... weird