I use the dump program that comes with most linux distros and to make life easier I thought I would write this simple menu driven front end, you must be root to run this and obviously have the dump program installed, it's fairly self explanatory, the disk to be dumped must be mounted so it can be found.
To restore a previously saved file system just cd into a ( preferably freshly formatted ) file sytem and run
Code:
sudo restore -arvf "/path/to/saved/dump/file".
Enjoy!
Code:
#!/bin/bash
#check for root
if [ $UID -gt 0 ];then
echo "You are NOT root, go away!"
exit 1
fi
#init stuff
PATHTODUMP="$(which dump)"
if [ "X${PATHTODUMP}" = "X" ];then
echo "I Can't find 'dump' :("
exit 2
fi
#to dump a disk it must be mounted
echo "Please select a disk to save"
DISKTOSAVE=$(mount|grep "/media"|awk '{print $3}'|awk -F "/" '{print $3}')
select THENAME in $DISKTOSAVE
do
DEV=$(blkid -L "$THENAME")
break
done
#select the dest disk ( must be mounted )
echo "Please select a save folder"
DATA=$(mount|grep "/media"|awk '{print $3}'|awk -F "/" '{print $3}')
select NAME in $DATA
do
DEST="/media/$NAME"
break
done
#selecting "Print" will just print the command
echo "Please select what to do on finish"
select FINISH in "Nothing" "Shutdown" "Restart" "Print"
do
break
done
#if you don't have zlib installed you can remove/change -z9 see the dump man page
#always does a level 0 dump
FOLDER=${DEST/\/dev\//\/media\/}
if [ $FINISH = "Print" ];then
echo "$PATHTODUMP -z9 -0 -f \"${FOLDER}/LinuxBackups/${THENAME}.$(date +%y%m%d)\" \"$DEV\""
exit
fi
mkdir -p "${FOLDER}/LinuxBackups"
umount "$DEV"
$PATHTODUMP -z9 -0 -f "${FOLDER}/LinuxBackups/${THENAME}.$(date +%y%m%d)" "$DEV"
case $FINISH in
"Nothing")
exit
;;
"Shutdown")
poweroff -d
;;
"Restart")
reboot -d
;;
esac
