Tarball an entire Linux system

#!/bin/bash

#Version: 1.0

#Description:  Checks for a destination mount directory.  Mounts it if it does not exist, the backs up the server to the mount directory.

mountdir="<mount directory>"

servername="<servername>"

exclusions="--exclude=/mnt --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/tmp --exclude=/media --exclude=/sys --exclude=/dev --exclude=/run --exclude=/var/cache"

if [ -d $mountdir ]; then

     cd $mountdir

     tar -zcpf $servername-full-backup-`date '+%d-%B-%Y'`.tar.gz / $exclusions

else

     sudo mount -t cifs -o username=moatisuser,password=moatisuser,rw \\\\fw24\\ata_1 /mnt/fw24

     cd $mountdir

     tar -zcpf $servername-full-backup-`date '+%d-%B-%Y'`.tar.gz / $exclusions

fi

Tarball an entire Linux system

#!/bin/bash

#Version: 1.0

#Description:  Checks for a destination mount directory.  Mounts it if it does not exist, the backs up the server to the mount directory.

mountdir="<mount directory>"

servername="<servername>"

exclusions="--exclude=/mnt --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/tmp --exclude=/media --exclude=/sys --exclude=/dev --exclude=/run --exclude=/var/cache"

if [ -d $mountdir ]; then

     cd $mountdir

     tar -zcpf $servername-full-backup-`date '+%d-%B-%Y'`.tar.gz / $exclusions

else

     sudo mount -t cifs -o username=moatisuser,password=moatisuser,rw \\\\fw24\\ata_1 /mnt/fw24

     cd $mountdir

     tar -zcpf $servername-full-backup-`date '+%d-%B-%Y'`.tar.gz / $exclusions

fi

Tarball an entire Linux system

#!/bin/bash

#Version: 1.0

#Description:  Checks for a destination mount directory.  Mounts it if it does not exist, the backs up the server to the mount directory.

mountdir="<mount directory>"

servername="<servername>"

exclusions="--exclude=/mnt --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/tmp --exclude=/media --exclude=/sys --exclude=/dev --exclude=/run --exclude=/var/cache"

if [ -d $mountdir ]; then

     cd $mountdir

     tar -zcpf $servername-full-backup-`date '+%d-%B-%Y'`.tar.gz / $exclusions

else

     sudo mount -t cifs -o username=moatisuser,password=moatisuser,rw \\\\fw24\\ata_1 /mnt/fw24

     cd $mountdir

     tar -zcpf $servername-full-backup-`date '+%d-%B-%Y'`.tar.gz / $exclusions

fi

Tarball an entire Linux system

#!/bin/bash

#Version: 1.0

#Description:  Checks for a destination mount directory.  Mounts it if it does not exist, the backs up the server to the mount directory.

mountdir="<mount directory>"

servername="<servername>"

exclusions="--exclude=/mnt --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/tmp --exclude=/media --exclude=/sys --exclude=/dev --exclude=/run --exclude=/var/cache"

if [ -d $mountdir ]; then

     cd $mountdir

     tar -zcpf $servername-full-backup-`date '+%d-%B-%Y'`.tar.gz / $exclusions

else

     sudo mount -t cifs -o username=moatisuser,password=moatisuser,rw \\\\fw24\\ata_1 /mnt/fw24

     cd $mountdir

     tar -zcpf $servername-full-backup-`date '+%d-%B-%Y'`.tar.gz / $exclusions

fi

Tarball an entire Linux system

#!/bin/bash

#Version: 1.0

#Description:  Checks for a destination mount directory.  Mounts it if it does not exist, the backs up the server to the mount directory.

mountdir="<mount directory>"

servername="<servername>"

exclusions="--exclude=/mnt --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/tmp --exclude=/media --exclude=/sys --exclude=/dev --exclude=/run --exclude=/var/cache"

if [ -d $mountdir ]; then

     cd $mountdir

     tar -zcpf $servername-full-backup-`date '+%d-%B-%Y'`.tar.gz / $exclusions

else

     sudo mount -t cifs -o username=moatisuser,password=moatisuser,rw \\\\fw24\\ata_1 /mnt/fw24

     cd $mountdir

     tar -zcpf $servername-full-backup-`date '+%d-%B-%Y'`.tar.gz / $exclusions

fi