Hi Lou,
Here mine.
It creates a backup directory named for the day of the week (except
for sunday, when it names it with the week number). It then Symlinks a
Current directory to point to the current backup directory. This is
used by a different script which fetches the backups to a different
server.
Then it cycles through the files in the SOURCE_FILE_DIR, which are
formatted like this...

/data/aktiv.fdb <USER> <PASSWORD>
/data/TMILeanMan.fdb <USER> <PASSWORD>
/data/TMI_PSC.fdb <USER> <PASSWORD>
/data/awards.fdb <USER> <PASSWORD>
/data/RiskAssessment.fdb <USER> <PASSWORD>

and backs them up and restores them. For each file in the directory,
it then tar gzips it with the name of the tgz file the same as the
source file.

If there are any errors it emails the users specified.
Hope you find it useful.

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#!/bin/bash

BASE_TARGET=/data/Backup
SOURCE_FILE_DIR=/root/backup/source
EMAIL=iann@...

today=`date +%w`

if [ "$today" = "0" ]; then
today=Week`date +%V`
ls -tl $BASE_TARGET | grep -E "^Week[0-9]?[0-9]/$" | tail -n +5 |
xargs rm -fR
else
today=`date +%A`
fi

mkdir $BASE_TARGET/$today 2>/dev/null
rm $BASE_TARGET/Current -f 2>/dev/null
ln -s $BASE_TARGET/$today $BASE_TARGET/Current

BASE_TARGET=$BASE_TARGET/Current

for destination in `ls $SOURCE_FILE_DIR`
do
echo $destination
while read database
do
DATABASE=(${database})
echo $DATABASE
source=${DATABASE[0]}
target=`basename $source`
target=$BASE_TARGET/${target%.???}.fbk
user=${DATABASE[1]}
password=${DATABASE[2]}
/opt/firebird/bin/gbak -B -user $user -password $password $source
$target 2> backup.err
/opt/firebird/bin/gbak -C -user $user -password $password $target
$BASE_TARGET/restore.fdb 2>> backup.err
rm -f $BASE_TARGET/restore.fdb
if [ -s $backup.err ]; then
echo "Problem backing up or restoring"
mail -s "Error backing up $source on
$destination" $EMAIL < backup.err
fi

done < $SOURCE_FILE_DIR/$destination

tar -czf $BASE_TARGET/$destination.tgz $BASE_TARGET/*.fbk
rm -f $BASE_TARGET/*.fbk
done

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