From c7733be24afe18f717cdbb03040152910bfb67e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thierry Parmentelat <thierry.parmentelat@sophia.inria.fr>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:56:03 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] automate dated backups of /etc/planetlab

---
 scripts/snapshot-etc-planetlab.sh | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 scripts/snapshot-etc-planetlab.sh

diff --git a/scripts/snapshot-etc-planetlab.sh b/scripts/snapshot-etc-planetlab.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..f741683
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/snapshot-etc-planetlab.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+date=$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M)
+output=/root/etc-planetlab-snapshots/$date
+
+# mention the first arg if provided in the resulting filename
+[[ -n "$1" ]] && { message=$1 ; shift ; output="${output}-${message}" ; }
+
+[ -d $output ] && { echo "refusing to use pre-existing target dir $output" ; exit 1 ; }
+
+mkdir $output
+
+tar -C /etc/planetlab -cf - . | tar -C $output -xf -
+
+
+
+
-- 
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