{"id":354,"date":"2010-01-01T15:20:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T15:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fir3netwp.gmsrrpobkbd.com\/2010\/01\/01\/rhel5-backup-shell-script\/"},"modified":"2021-07-31T18:18:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T18:18:20","slug":"rhel5-backup-shell-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/Programming\/Shell-Scripting\/rhel5-backup-shell-script.html","title":{"rendered":"RHEL5 Backup Shell Script"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below is a link to a RHEL5 shell backup script. Below is a summary of what the script does :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Creates a tgz of all the major RHEL 5 operating system files to ${backup_name}.<\/li>\n<li>All the installed rpms are saved to a text file named \/var\/log\/installed_rpms.txt.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<pre>#!\/bin\/sh\r\n#\r\n# RHEL 5 Backup Script v1.1\r\n#\r\n#  - Creates a tgz of all the major RHEL 5 operating system files to ${backup_name}.\r\n#  - All the installed rpms are saved to a text file named \/var\/log\/installed_rpms.txt.\r\n#\r\n\r\nPATH=\/usr\/kerberos\/sbin:\/usr\/kerberos\/bin:\/usr\/local\/sbin:\/usr\/local\/bin:\/sbin:\/bin:\/usr\/sbin:\/usr\/bin\r\nbackup()\r\n{\r\nbackup_name=Backup-`hostname`-`date \"+%Y%m%d\"`\r\nbackup_loc=\/backup\r\n\r\nrpm -qa &gt; \/var\/log\/installed_rpms.txt\r\ntar cf - \\\r\n        \/var\/log\/installed_rpms.txt \\\r\n        \/etc\/cron* \\\r\n        \/etc\/ftp* \\\r\n        \/etc\/group* \\\r\n        \/etc\/hosts* \\\r\n        \/etc\/init.d\/*  \\\r\n        \/etc\/rc3.d\/* \\\r\n        \/etc\/passwd \\\r\n        \/etc\/resolv.conf \\\r\n        \/etc\/sasl2* \\\r\n        \/etc\/shadow \\\r\n        \/etc\/snmp\/* \\\r\n        \/etc\/ssh\/* \\\r\n        \/etc\/sysconfig\/* \\\r\n        \/etc\/sysctl.conf \\\r\n        \/etc\/syslog.conf \\\r\n        \/etc\/yum* \\\r\n        \/root\/.bash_profile \\\r\n        \/root\/.bashrc \\\r\n        \/root\/.ssh* \\\r\n| gzip -6c &gt; ${backup_loc}\/${backup_name}.tgz\r\n\r\nif [ $? != 0 ]\r\nthen\r\n        logger -t os_backup -p daemon.err \"Backup unsuccessful.\"\r\n        exit 1\r\nelse\r\n        logger -t os_backup -p daemon.info \"Backup successful.\"\r\n        exit 0\r\nfi\r\n}\r\n\r\nbackup<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is a link to a RHEL5 shell backup script. 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