[K12OSN] Scripters...I need your help! *please?*

[Christopher K. Johnson]

Petre Scheie wrote:

> Off the top of my head:
>
> !#/bin/bash
> for x in `ls /home`; do
> echo "Doing $x ..."
> mkdir /home/${x}/win-backup
> chown ${x}.${x} /home/${x}/win-backup
>
> echo "Copying /opt/samba/profiles/${x}/My\ Documents/ 
> /home/${x}/win-backup"
> #cp -a /opt/samba/profiles/${x}/My\ Documents/ /home/${x}/win-backup
>
> echo "Copying /opt/samba/profiles/${x}/Desktop/ /home/${x}/win-backup"
> #cp -a /opt/samba/profiles/${x}/Desktop/ /home/${x}/win-backup
>
> echo "Copying /opt/samba/profiles/${x}/Favorites/ /home/${x}/win-backup
> #cp -a /opt/samba/profiles/${x}/Favorites/ /home/${x}/win-backup
> done
>
>
> If you copy this to a file, do a chmod +x on the file, and run it, it 
> will tell you what it's going to do without actually doing it.  This 
> way you can see if you will get what you want.  Assuming it is what 
> you want, remove the # signs in front of the cp commands and rerun the 
> script.  HTH
>
> Petre

I inserted "-a" option on cp to recursively copy everything and preserve 
ownership.
Be aware that when used repeatedly the results will include the 
aggregate of all files of different names which were once present when 
backed up.  In other words files removed between backups from under 
/opt/samba/profiles/... will still exist under the win-backup directories.

You may want to configure rsync instead of cp for future use.  But 
Petre's solution is a quick and effective one for now.

Chris

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