easy script for backing up a directory then copying it acros

windows shares are normally called smb or samba shares in the *nix world. What you want to do is create your tar, mount the share, copy it over, then unmount the share. I don't have a mac to test any of this out, but the basic is something like this: [code=xml] #!/bin/bash tar -cfz filename.tar.gz /Users/userdirectory if [[ $? -eq 0 ]] then mount_smbfs -W workgroup //user@SERVER/folder /mntpoint cp filename.tar.gz /mntpoint/ umount /mntpoint else echo "Unable to tar the directory" fi [/code] Thats just the basics of it. You probably want to make tar output the file to a specific directory, and probably even delete the file when you're done transfering it. Also, I would suggest putting the filename as a variable at the start of the script, even the user and server name as well. That way its easy to modify down the line if you need to. If none of that makes sense, feel free to ask about it. This should get you started though, and making you modify it should help you learn what you're doing. :) I also highly suggest reading: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ to learn basic bash scripting. [Modified by: Khabi on July 01, 2008 01:49 AM]

OK so I'm not copying to a Windows server it's a Mac server. herefore I don't think this command will work: mount_smbfs -W

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