DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Not backing up to a bad device

If you enter a non-existent device name in the backup/restore widget, backup/restore fails but the garbage name gets stored in /opt/.backup_device anyway.

If you forget and reboot, the automated backup from powerdown.sh tries to backup to this non-existent device and fails --> work lost.

One fix is to:

1. Test for a bad device name at the beginning of filetool.sh (eg)

Code Sample

# Get the device name from argument $3 or /opt/.backup_device
DEVICE="$3" || DEVICE="$(cat /opt/.backup_device 2>/dev/null)"

# Exit if no device specified or if DEVICE is not a valid block device
[ "x$DEVICE" = x -o ! -b "/dev/$DEVICE" ] && exit 1

2. Change filetool.sh so that it only stores the device name if backup/restore is successful eg a "clean-up" function including:

Code Sample

# Only store device name if backup/restore successful
[ $1 -eq 0 ] && echo $(basename $DEVICE) >/opt/.backup_device
# Remove password file if decryption fails
[ $1 -eq 98 ] && rm -f /etc/sysconfig/des

3. Remove the write to /opt/.backup_device from dsl-restore.sh. Also, filetool.sh can do the mount test on the device name etc

4. filetool.lua can then be simplified:

Code Sample

w = Window{320,75, "Filetool"}
input = Input{60,10,210,25,"Device:"}
readfrom("/opt/.backup_device")
input.value = read()

cancel = Button{60,40,70,25,"&Cancel"}
function cancel:callback()
exit(0)
end

backup = Button{130,40,70,25,"&Backup"}
function backup:callback()
t = {"filetool.sh backup noprompt ".. input.value}
call(execute, t)
exit(0)
end

[ and ditto for the restore function ]

etc

I tried these ideas in the updated fast backup scripts posted
here today.
(lzop does not have to be used)

original here.