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Maki

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From: Skopje, Macedonia

Registered: 2007-10-16

Posts: 353

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Simple maintanance scripts

Upon discovering the power of cron, i have made scripts to clean & backup important files from my system. They are really bare bones & some stuff are missing, but could be usefull in an event of a total meltdown, and run some trivial cleanup commands...

The backup script

#!/bin/bash
#        A litle script to make live easier
##Making a list of packages
pacman -Qqm > /data/backup/pkglocal >> /dev/null 2>&1
pacman -Qqe > /data/backup/pkglist >> /dev/null  2>&1
##Untar with  tar xvpfz foo.tar.gz -C "parent directory"
#backing up /etc
tar cvpzf /data/backup/etc.tar.gz /etc >> /dev/null 2>&1
#Backing up local package database, just in case.
tar cvpzf /data/backup/local.tar.gz /var/lib/pacman/local >> /dev/null 2>&1
#Backing up the /home dir.
tar cvpzf /data/backup/home.tar.gz --exclude=lost+found /home >> /dev/null 2>&1

The cleanup script

pacman -Sc --noconfirm >> /dev/null #2>&1
echo y|pacdiffviewer -c >> /dev/null #2>&1 ##probably doesn't work good
pacman-optimize >> /dev/null #2>&1

Any suggestion is more than apreciated

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dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: Simple maintanance scripts

Since pacman-optimize suggests running sync afterwards you might as well add it too

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rson451

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From: Annapolis, MD USA

Registered: 2007-04-15

Posts: 1,233

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Re: Simple maintanance scripts

Another note, "echo y | .." can be replaced with "yes | .." if I'm reading that correctly.

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