Solaris Backup Script

This script will backup all the major operating system files and save them within /var/tmp. It was also log the MD5 of the backup after each successful backup and rotate the backups to ensure you dont run into disk space issues.

#!/sbin/sh
##
## SunOS Backup Script v1.3
##
## Backups up the the following file to /var/tmp/solaris-backup_`hostname`_`/bin/date +"%Y%m%d"`.tgz
## 
## /etc/passwd 
## /etc/system
## /etc/group 
## /etc/shadow 
## /etc/syslog.conf 
## /etc/nsswitch.conf 
## /etc/hosts 
## /etc/nodename 
## /etc/hostname.* 
## /etc/etheraddr* 
## /etc/inet/netmasks 
## /etc/inet/ntp.conf 
## /etc/rc3.d/* 
## /etc/init.d/* 
## /etc/ssh 
## /var/spool/cron 
## /usr/local/bin 
## /usr/local/log 
## /var/tmp/`hostname`_runconfig_`date +"%Y%m%d"`.txt = arp -an / ifconfig -a / netstat -nvr
##

## ENV VARIABLES

if [ -r /.profile ]
then
	. /.profile
else
	exit 1	 
fi

## VARIABLES

BKUPFILE=/var/tmp/solaris-backup_`hostname`_`date +"%Y%m%d"`.tgz

## Backup Rotatation

find /var/tmp/ -name *backup\* -mtime +2 -exec rm {} \;
 
## BACKUP

if [ `uname` = SunOS ] 
then

  arp -an > /var/tmp/`hostname`_runconfig_`date +"%Y%m%d"`.txt
  netstat -rvn >> /var/tmp/`hostname`_runconfig_`date +"%Y%m%d"`.txt
  ifconfig -a >> /var/tmp/`hostname`_runconfig_`date +"%Y%m%d"`.txt
  	tar -cf - /etc/passwd /etc/system /etc/group /etc/shadow /etc/syslog.conf /etc/nsswitch.conf /etc/hosts /etc/nodename /etc/hostname.* /etc/etheraddr* /etc/inet/netmasks /etc/inet/ntp.conf /etc/rc3.d/* /etc/init.d/* /etc/ssh /var/tmp/`hostname`_runconfig_`date +"%Y%m%d"`.txt /var/spool/cron /usr/local/bin /usr/local/log 2>/dev/null | gzip -6c > "${BKUPFILE}"      
  	RC=$?
  rm -f /var/tmp/`hostname`_runconfig_`date +"%Y%m%d"`.txt
  MD5=`md5 "${BKUPFILE}"`
else
  logger -t cp_backup -p daemon.err "Backup unsuccessful. Wrong OS."
fi

## LOGGING

if [ "${RC}" != 0 ]
then
        logger -t cp_backup -p daemon.err "Backup unsuccessful."
	exit 1

elif [ "${RC}" = 0 ]
then
        logger -t cp_backup -p notice "Backup successful. "${MD5}""
	exit 0
fi
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