I've got to make a cron job of transfering over 100 backup .tar.gz files to ftp backup server. Stuck upon combining find command
find /home/backup -mtime -1 -mmin +59 -type f -name "*.tar.gz*"
this part works fine, and script part:
#!/bin/sh
USERNAME="user"
PASSWORD="password"
SERVER="someip"
FILE="/home/backup"
DATE="`date +%Y-%m-%d-%H.%M.%S `"
BACKUPDIR="/backup/${DATE}/"
ftp -inv $SERVER <<EOF
user $USERNAME $PASSWORD
mkdir $BACKUPDIR
cd $BACKUPDIR
mput $FILE/*.tar.gz*
quit
EOF
for this
00 12 * * * find /home/backup -mtime -1 -mmin +59 -type f -name "*.tar.gz*" -exec /root/ftp.sh {} \;
doesn't work. No scp/ssh advice please) have to do it with ftp.
I advise you to make the crontab command smaller. Not that it shouldn't working your way, but it will be easier to understand what is happening.
00 12 * * * sh /root/ftpjob.sh
and
#!/bin/sh
username="user"
password="password"
server="someip"
sourcedir="/home/backup"
date="`date +%Y-%m-%d-%H.%M.%S `"
remotedir="/backup/${DATE}/"
find /home/backup -mtime -1 -mmin +59 -type f -name "*.tar.gz*" |
while read filename ; do
/bin/ftp -inv $server >> /tmp/ftpjob.log <<EOF
user $username $password
mkdir $remotedir
cd $remotedir
put $sourcedir/$filename
EOF
echo "$date copied $filename" >> /tmp/ftpjob.log
done
This will work, as long as you are sure that your tar.gz filenames don't have spaces in them.
On the other hand, if you are able to do the ftp with an mput, there is no reason to do the find at all:
#!/bin/sh
username="user"
password="password"
server="someip"
sourcedir="/home/backup"
date="`date +%Y-%m-%d-%H.%M.%S `"
remotedir="/backup/${DATE}/"
/bin/ftp -inv $server >> /tmp/ftpjob.log <<EOF
user $username $password
mkdir $remotedir
cd $remotedir
mput $sourcedir/*.tar.gz.*
EOF
So, you would either use find to loop over the files, which is a good idea if there are multiple levels of directories where the tar.gz files are, or you would use mput in ftp if all the archives are always in the same directory.
Based on Ljm Dullaart answer working script looks like:
#!/bin/sh
USERNAME="user"
PASSWORD="password"
SERVER="someip"
DATE="`date +%Y-%m-%d `"
BACKUPDIR="/${DATE}/"
find . -mtime -1 -mmin +59 -type f -name "*.tar.gz*" -exec basename {} .tar.gz* \; |
while read filename ; do
/bin/ftp -inv $SERVER >> /tmp/ftp.log <<EOF
user $USERNAME $PASSWORD
mkdir $BACKUPDIR
cd $BACKUPDIR
put $filename
EOF
echo "$date copied $filename" >> /tmp/ftp.log
done
yet can be done using a different loop:
#!/bin/sh
USERNAME="user"
PASSWORD="password"
SERVER="someip"
SOURCEDIR="/home/backup"
DATE="`date +%Y-%m-%d `"
BACKUPDIR="/${DATE}/"
cd /home/backup
for i in $(find /home/backup -mtime -1 -mmin +59 -type f -name "*.tar.gz*" -exec basename \{} . \;)
do
/bin/ftp -inv $SERVER >> /tmp/ftp.log <<EOF
user $USERNAME $PASSWORD
mkdir $BACKUPDIR
cd $BACKUPDIR
put $i
EOF
done
both will do for uploading backup files sorted by date via ftp.
