usabackup - backup Unix config files on a list of hosts
C<usabackup [ --quiet --verbose ] [I<host1 host2 ... hostn]>>
usabackup
takes a list of hostnames. If none are given, all
hosts in the database are processed. usabackup
copies existing user, group and
automounter files on each host to a '/etc/usasave' directory'. It adds a '.1' extension
to each file. If files with numerical extensions already exist in the /etc/usasave directory, usabackup
renames them to the next higher version number. The result is a set of
backup files with higher version numbers representing older backups in typical Unix log
rotation style. The script will fill in holes in the sequence, and will not copy over any
existing backups. The result will always be a contiguous numbered series from newest to oldest.
usabackup
never deletes any of the backup files, so their number can grow without bound.
See the usapurge manpage for a utility to trim the list of backup files produced by usabackup
usabackup
announces itself on stdout when it starts. It also
prints status messages as it works. If this switch is given, usabackup
will produce no output other than fatal errors. Overrides the --verbose
switch.
--quiet
is not given, --verbose
turns on verbose output of all
commands issued by the framework.
Man(%%3)
pages (programmer's docs):
the Unix::Sysadmin::Host manpage, the Unix::Sysadmin::User manpage, the Unix::Sysadmin::Automount manpage, the Unix::Sysadmin::Group manpage, the Unix::Sysadmin::Netgroup manpage, the Unix::Sysadmin::List manpage, the Unix::Sysadmin::Cmds manpage, the Unix::Sysadmin::Files manpage the Unix::Sysadmin::Utility manpage the Unix::Sysadmin::Config manpage, the Unix::Sysadmin::Scoped manpage
Man(%%5)
pages (file formats):
the Unix::Sysadmin::Host.list manpage, the Unix::Sysadmin::User.list manpage, the Unix::Sysadmin::Automount.list manpage, the Unix::Sysadmin::Group.list manpage, the Unix::Sysadmin::Netgroup.list manpage
Man(%%8)
pages (manager's docs):
the Unix::Sysadmin manpage, the Unix::Sysadmin::Setup manpage the usasetup manpage
Howard Owen <hbo@egbok.com> =cut