[sf-lug] perl backup script, and other perl goodies

[jim]

sorry for the idiotic question: 
   how to get a program (shell script most likely 
in my case) to log in: i.e. issue a 
scp <file> <user>@<host>:<dir>  
command and then respond to the password prompt? 



On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 07:53 -0700, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Michael Paoli wrote:
> 
> > One of the discussions that came up at the SF-LUG meeting this evening 
> > was backups, ... including a perl backup script I'd written a while 
> > back.
> 
> I'll throw on my two cents' worth:
> 
> For backups, I use a tool called dirvish.  Every night, it sshs to the 
> computers I want to back up, and it generates a directory tree like this:
> 
> .../2008-08-22/tree/
> .../2008-08-22/tree/etc/
> .../2008-08-22/tree/etc/passwd
> ...
> 
> That {date}/tree/ directory has a *full* snapshot of the filesystem as of 
> the time the backup job ran.
> 
> Any files that haven't changed are hard-linked to last-night's backup 
> rather than copied, so the data are only stored once, so even though they 
> look like full backups, the space cost is like incremental backups.
> 
> It's very nice to be able to "cd" into yesterday, and it's very very nice 
> to, when remote disks crash, just send over last night's backup.
> 
> -- Asheesh.
>