Very Computer

Is it as simple as:

cd /
mkdir /home

(Or was that suggestion even more stupid ?)

regards,
-=-peas-=-

Quote:> Call me stupid if you will but i have gone deleted /home. I understand
that
> there is no way of recovering the files but how do i re-create /home
itself
> ?

> Is it as simple as:

> cd /
> mkdir /home

> (Or was that suggestion even more stupid ?)

> regards,
> -=-peas-=-

If you specifically created your /home filesystem under /, then you can
put it there again.

Andy

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Thanx for your help.

-=-peas-=-

As for the original posting, that's the eternal danger of rm -R.
But you should be able to concoct a simple script that
intercepts the -R and makes you think twice about it. Come to
think of it, why don't I do that myself ?? :^\

Dave

Quote:>If you specifically created your /home filesystem under /,
>then you can put it there again.

>Andy

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tar cpvf - /home/* | gzip -c > home.tar.gz

A good idea would be to do a weekly or daily backup, include the date in
the name of the tar file, and burn it onto a CD or copy to tape.  In
case something happens, you'll be able to pick from a range of dates.
For example:

home-Wed Jan 17 02:53:03 EST 2001.tar.gz

tar cpvf - /home/* | gzip -c > "home-`date`.tar.gz"

Of course, you might want to format the args to the date command.  But,
I don't see the problem in keeping the spaces in there from the date
command.  It just looks like something 'Doze would do, that's all. ;)

-Donn

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Dave

"Keeping usrs homeless for over 5 years now!"

Quote:> apart from which I don't see any particular synergy
> between the user and his /usr directory. I'll take a guess at
> "Unix software repository." Anyone know the truth?

the backup.sh script is as follows:

#!/bin/sh

DATE=`/bin/date +%d-%b-%Y`

echo "~~~BEGINNING BACKUP OF YOUR.DOMAIN.COM~~~"
echo "===> COMPRESSING FILES AND FOLDERS"

tar -cpszf httpd.bak.tar.gz /home/httpd
tar -cpszf httpdconf.bak.tar.gz /etc/httpd
tar -cpszf named.bak.tar.gz /var/named
tar -cpszf mailconf.bak.tar.gz /etc/mail
tar -cpszf firewall.bak.tar.gz /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall
tar -cpszf mailspool.bak.tar.gz /var/spool/mail
tar -cpszf sendmailcf.bak.tar.gz /etc/sendmail.cf

echo "=====> CREATING DIRECTORY"

mkdir /home/backups/ns1_$DATE

echo "=======> MOVING FILES AND FOLDERS TO DIRECTORY"

mv -f *.bak.tar.gz /home/backups/ns1_$DATE

echo "=========> COMPRESSING DIRECTORY"

tar -cpszf ns1_$DATE.tar.gz /home/backups/ns1_$DATE

echo "===========> SENDING DIRECTORY TO BACKUP SERVER"

ftp <<**
open YOUR.FTPHOST.COM
bin
put ns1_$DATE.tar.gz  /backups/ns1_$DATE.tar.gz
bye
**

echo "=============>REMOVING COMPRESSED DIRECTORY"

rm ns1_$DATE.tar.gz

echo "~~~BACKUP COMPLETE~~~"

and the format of the .netrc is as follows:

machine YOUR.FTPHOST.COM
login USERNAME
password PASS

Quote:> here's a simple shell script that i wrote to backup certain files and
> directories, and to ftp them to another host for safe keeping,

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