I noticed no one answered yet.  The shell script could be as
complex as you want to make it. I would start with something like
this:


#!/bin/sh
mount /dev/zip /mnt && \
tar -zxvf /mnt/`date +%d%b%Y`.tgz /www/htdocs /var/log/messages
/var/db/mysql
umount /mnt


granted, that will will fill up the disk after time, so you would
have to purge old records, or add something like


rm /mnt/`date -v "-1m" +%d%b%Y`.tgz  

which will delete the file that is one month old. I had something
like the above script running in cron nightly. you might need to
stop mysql and restart it instead of copying while it's on. i'm
not sure. but hopefully you have something to start on. I just
typed this off the top of my head, so i wouldn't copy/paste
anything. but hopefully you get an idea. 





---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: olof hennig <bbq@hennig.nu>
Date:  Tue, 19 Nov 2002 19:01:33 +0100

>Do I need to consider anything special if I want to use a zip-drive 
>with netbsd?
>
>I have a small web and mail server, an SE/30 running 1.5.3, that I'd 
>like to backup daily. I only need to back the messages, webpages and 
>mysql data, and that will fit on a zip disk. But my unix skills are 
>limited. Is there any software that you would recommend or would
a cron 
>script be sufficient?
>
>Any help will be apreciated.
>
>olof
>
>
 

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