wjones@andromeda.rutgers.edu.rutgers.edu (Wendell E Jones) (11/20/90)
I have a question. I am trying to write a backup script for my
UNIX machine running 4.3 BSD and I am trying to avoid backing
up those filesystems that are NFS mounted. I use the find command
and then pipe it through sed to eliminate those filesystems, but
for some reason nasty things happen.
* The backups take entirely too long
* The load average shoots thought the ceiling
* Script goes to the NFS filesys and searches
through them, then it decides to not use any
of the data it found.
Here is a sample of the script:
# backup_usr_local: utility to dump /usr/local filesystem to /dev/rmt8
cd /usr/local;
/bin/find . -depth -print 2> /dev/null |
/bin/sed '/\.\/lib\/fonts/d' |
/bin/sed '/\.\/contrib/d' |
/bin/sed '/\.\/src/d' |
/bin/cpio -oB 2> /dev/null > /dev/rmt8
In my opinion, this setup is not very efficient. I need to know
if there is a way of backing up the file system with out the
even looking past the NFS mount.
-RESTRICTIONS:
On my system, find command does not have the:
-prune or -fstype
options. Thanks in advance.
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