This is a script I wrote to search mounted windows machines from a linux server for a specific directory. Once the directory was located I wanted the directory found to be rsynced to the local servers /backup partition.

The following script is named script-build and is placed in / The script is commented to understand what’s going on.

#!/bin/sh

#Find the directory on the windows machine to be backed up.

find /mnt -name Qualcomm -print > /tmp/mail-bkup.tmp



#Edit the mail-bkup.tmp file to add proper spacing so linux can recognize the spacing.

sed -r -e 's# #\\ #g' /tmp/mail-bkup.tmp > /tmp/mkdir.tmp



#Edit the mail-bkup.tmp file to add proper spacing so linux can recognize the spacing and create a separate file.

sed -r -e 's# #\\ #g' /tmp/mail-bkup.tmp > /tmp/mail-bkup.tmp1



#Append /backup to the join.tmp file.

sed 's/ˆ/\/backup/' /tmp/mkdir.tmp > /tmp/join.tmp



#Append mkdir -p /backup to the mkdir.tmp1 file.

sed 's/ˆ/mkdir -p \/backup/' /tmp/mkdir.tmp > /tmp/mkdir.tmp1



#Add #!/bin/sh to the head of the mkdir.main script.

sed '1s/ˆ/#!\/bin\/sh\n/' /tmp/mkdir.tmp1 > /tmp/mkdir.main



#Append rsync -a to mail-bkup.tmp2

sed 's/ˆ/rsync -a /' /tmp/mail-bkup.tmp1 > /tmp/mail-bkup.tmp2



#Put mail-bkup.tmp2 and join.tmp side by side and output the result to mail-bkup.tmp4

paste /tmp/mail-bkup.tmp2 /tmp/join.tmp > /tmp/mail-bkup.tmp4



#Add #!/bin/sh to the head of mail-bkup.main

sed '1s/ˆ/#!\/bin\/sh\n/' /tmp/mail-bkup.tmp4 > /tmp/mail-bkup.main



#Set both scripts executable

chmod +x /tmp/mkdir.main

chmod +x /tmp/mail-bkup.main



#cleanup our mess

rm /tmp/join.tmp

rm /tmp/mail-bkup.tmp

rm /tmp/mail-bkup.tmp1

rm /tmp/mail-bkup.tmp2

rm /tmp/mail-bkup.tmp4

rm /tmp/mkdir.tmp

rm /tmp/mkdir.tmp1

This script will create two more scripts (/tmp/mail-bkup.main and /tmp/mkdir.main)

This is how I have crontab setup to execute the scripts:

#CREATE THE SCRIPTS TO BACKUP CLIENT EMAILS AT 10PM

0 22 * * * /script-build



#EXECUTE THE SCRIPTS TO CREATE DIRECTORY STRUCTURE AND SYNC EMAIL AT 1AM & 2AM RESPECTIVELY

0 1 * * * /tmp/mkdir.main

0 2 * * * /tmp/mail-bkup.main