Backup--quick, cheap, good/fast, pick all 3

[Doug Sweetser]

Hello:

If one has music or video files to back up, that will require tapes
or other hard drives.  One might decide to have a backup system for
REALLY BIG THINGS, and another for all the text and images which are
smaller than 600MB.  That can be burned to a CD.  If your machine
doesn't have one, those go for about $30-50.  If you need something in
the 4GB range, a DVD burner goes for $150, and less as time goes on.

Perl was designed to make chores easy.  I wrote a simple script called
"backup".  It calls another simple program to toss away things like
emacs backup files.  Another little program on my Debian system records
every package I have installed.  It makes an iso image, and then burns
it to CD.  (If someone has an idea about another "good practice" to
do, please tell me).  Although I am a bit sloppy, I like my chore
programs to always follow best practices.  Backups can be made easy,
honest.

doug


#!/usr/bin/perl -w
$|++;

## Name:   backup

## Author: Douglas Sweetser
##         sweetser at alum.mit.edu

## License: GPL, info at end


### Program description

my $help_string = <<HELP;

Does all backup chores.

Usage: backup -dir name

backs up: /home /etc /var/lib/tripwire /var/www by default.

HELP


### Algorithm
    
#   Run a few commands.


### Modules

use strict;
use English;
use Getopt::Long;
   $Getopt::Long::autoabbrev = 1;
   $Getopt::Long::ignorecase = 0;


### Variables

my $line;
my $run;
my $test;
my @dirs;
my @backup_dirs = qw (/home /etc /var/lib/tripwire /var/www);
my $today;
$today = `/usr/local/bin/yyyymmdd`;
chomp $today;

my $help;
my $QA = 0;


### Main

__get_data();

# Eliminate junk.
print STDOUT "run find_junk_rm? [y] ";
$run = <STDIN>;
system ("/usr/local/bin/find_junk_rm") unless ($run =~ /^n/i);

# Record selected packages.
unless (-e "/home/sweetser/Mail/OS/Linux/selections.$today")
{
    print STDOUT "Recording selected packages.\n";
    system ("/usr/bin/dpkg --get-selections > /home/sweetser/Mail/OS/Linux/selections.$today");
}

# Make iso image for cd.
print STDOUT "run mkisofs? [y] ";
$run = <STDIN>;
system ("/usr/bin/mkisofs -r -o $today.iso @backup_dirs") unless ($run =~ /^n/i);

# Burn the cd.
print STDOUT "run cdrecord? [y] ";
$run = <STDIN>;
system ("/usr/bin/nice --18 /usr/bin/cdrecord -eject -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -multi -data -pad $today.iso") unless ($run =~ /^n/i);


### Signals

exit(0);


### Subroutines

# Get data, assign to variables.
sub __get_data {

    my $get = GetOptions("dirs=s" => \@dirs, "help" => \$help, "QA" => \$QA);
  
    die ("Check options please.\nProgram exiting.\n") unless $get;

    if ($help) {
        print $help_string;
        exit(1);
    }

    ## Check if user is root.
    die ("Must be root.\nProgram exiting.\n") unless ($ENV{USER} eq "root");

    ## Add to list of directories.
    push @backup_dirs, @dirs if (defined ($dirs[0]));
    print STDERR "Will be backing up: @backup_dirs.\n";
}


### Perldoc

=pod

=head1 NAME 

backup - Automates data backup 

=head1 DESCRIPTION

Runs relevant commands.

=head1 USAGE

Usage: backup -dir name

backs up: /home /etc /var/lib/tripwire /var/www by default.

=head1 OPTIONS

=item I<-dir name>

Adds directories to be backed up.  Modify this perl script if a directory should regularly be backed up.

=item I<-help>

Prints help message.

=head1 AUTHOR

Doug Sweetser at alum.mit.edu  2003.  All rights reserved.

=cut


### License

# # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# # the Free Software Foundation, version 2 of the License.

# # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# # GNU General Public License for more details.

# # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

[Note: the reason for these odd #'s is that grep # backup shows the
structure and comments in the program.]