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PostPosted: Sat May 04, 2002 12:51 pm    Post subject: Horrid Gentoolkit *Bug* = ? Reply with quote

I emerged gentoolkit like normal, ran etc-update again like normal, and here is where the problem arose.....Now my entire /etc directory is completely empty and I have no idea what to do about this. I am rather disappointed this happened as I just re-installed from stage 1 and got fluxbox up and running again, if anyone knows what to get this issue resolved it would be much appreciated as it has me stumped.
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PostPosted: Sat May 04, 2002 3:23 pm    Post subject: Re: Horrid Gentoolkit *Bug* = ? Reply with quote

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if anyone knows what to get this issue resolved it would be much appreciated as it has me stumped.


Other folks have had similar troubles with etc-update. My recommendation is to resolve the /etc files by hand using diff. I know that doesn't help youi now, but hopefully it will help other folks in the future. /etc files are simply too critical, IMO.

Regarding your issue, specifically, you do have backups, don't you. :)

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PostPosted: Sat May 04, 2002 3:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well I was trying to get my system back up to speed after re-installing from stage 1 instead of stage 3, so the answer is no I hadn't backed it up *yet*. I will reinstall again I suppose arggggg :roll:
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PostPosted: Sun May 05, 2002 12:09 pm    Post subject: Thanks for the warning... Reply with quote

Just put this in a file in /etc/init.d and added it to the default runlevel...

Code:
#!/bin/bash
# Script to backup /etc/* on startup, just in case.

echo "Backing up /etc/..."
rm -fr /var/backup/oldetc
mv /var/backup/etc /var/backup/oldetc
cp -R /etc /var/backup/etc


and now I have two generations of /etc/ backed up automatically on start up. :)
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PostPosted: Sun May 05, 2002 12:17 pm    Post subject: Re: Thanks for the warning... Reply with quote

mdpye wrote:
and now I have two generations of /etc/ backed up automatically on start up. :)


That's a great idea -- thanks mdpye. One suggestion I would have is to use:

Code:
cp -pR /etc /var/backup/etc


instead of just 'cp -R'. That way, you don't have to worry about ending up with /etc files that are world-writeable if you restore from backup. :)

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PostPosted: Sun May 05, 2002 1:03 pm    Post subject: Thanks... Reply with quote

I've put the -p in so now the permissions are properly protected. I did think about dumping /etc/. I was thinking of changing the original to dump it in a tarball, but I don't want to slow down the boot sequence TOO much. The superfast boot is one of the things I love so much about gentoo...
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PostPosted: Sun May 05, 2002 11:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the suggestion, I was going to do something similar to that when I get up to re-installing again :)
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PostPosted: Mon May 06, 2002 4:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ya know, stuff like this you really don't think of until your bit like hell by it. I just put that bit of code into my startup just in case I get bit by that bug myself....

Thanks for the info!
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PostPosted: Mon May 06, 2002 7:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just a personal preference but I'd have used tar instead of cp

tar -czf /var/backup/etc.tar.gz /etc

On my system it used 550K instead of 4.5M, not a huge amount but every little helps.

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PostPosted: Mon May 06, 2002 7:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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tar -czf /var/backup/etc.tar.gz /etc

On my system it used 550K instead of 4.5M, not a huge amount but every little helps.


Just changed mine to tar now... figured what the hey...
Mine reads:

echo "Backing up /etc/..."
rm -rf /var/backup/oldetc.tar.gz
mv /var/backup/etc.tar.gz /var/backup/oldetc.tar.gz
tar -zcspf /var/backup/etc.tar.gz /etc

Just need to figure out how to get rid of that stupid line that keeps saying: "tar: Removing leading `/' from member names"

Side note: it seems that tar actually takes less time than copying, oddly enough. (on my system, which is a 450mhz with a 9ms 10 gig drive)
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PostPosted: Mon May 06, 2002 10:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Side note: it seems that tar actually takes less time than copying, oddly enough. (on my system, which is a 450mhz with a 9ms 10 gig drive)


With any reasonably modern processor, your hard drive is going to be the bottleneck, so compressing the file means less to write which means less time.
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PostPosted: Mon May 06, 2002 11:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anonymous wrote:
With any reasonably modern processor, your hard drive is going to be the bottleneck, so compressing the file means less to write which means less time.


Something I had considered, but not tested. I got an PIII 866, so it looks like it's tarballs for me after all...
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PostPosted: Mon May 06, 2002 11:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Just need to figure out how to get rid of that stupid line that keeps saying: "tar: Removing leading `/' from member names"


tar -zcspf /var/backup/etc.tar.gz /etc 2> /dev/null

Does the trick for me, and sends the note from tar straight to the bit bucket. :)
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PostPosted: Mon May 06, 2002 11:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can also use the -P option, which informs tar that you're using absolute paths
Code:
tar -Pzcspf /var/backup/etc.tgz /etc


Here's a version that uses runscript.sh like the other init.d scripts, so now it has the pretty green asterisk...

Code:

#!/sbin/runscript
# Backs up /etc/*

start() {
        local BACKUPDIR="/var/backup"

        ebegin "Backing up /etc/* to ${BACKUPDIR}/etc.tar.gz"
        if [ ! -d ${BACKUPDIR} ]
        then
                mkdir ${BACKUPDIR}
        fi
        rm -rf ${BACKUPDIR}/oldetc.tar.gz
        if [ -f ${BACKUPDIR}/etc.tar.gz ]
        then
                mv ${BACKUPDIR}/etc.tar.gz ${BACKUPDIR}/oldetc.tar.gz
        fi
        tar -Pzcspf ${BACKUPDIR}/etc.tar.gz /etc
        eend $?
}
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PostPosted: Mon May 06, 2002 2:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

leaf wrote:
Here's a version that uses runscript.sh like the other init.d scripts, so now it has the pretty green asterisk...


Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to open development and peer review on the smallest scale. Our /etc/ directories are now safe. :)

Thanks for the full gentoo bootscript version leaf.

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PostPosted: Mon May 06, 2002 6:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is good stuff. Make sure and request that it gets added to Gentoo's baselayout on https://bugs.gentoo.org .
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PostPosted: Mon May 06, 2002 7:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No, don't add things like this to the base layout, this is just system tweaking. It's good stuff yess but don't force it on everyone since this is essentially a workaround to a bug in another package.

It wouldn't work for me as I rarely reboot my machine but tweak my /etc files daily at the moment; I prefer to make manual backups before upgrading. Our efforts should be concentrated on pinning down and fixing the bug that caused this discussion in the first place.

Just my £0.02 worth.

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PostPosted: Tue May 07, 2002 2:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Back up and running again and am using your script leaf, thanks for the idea :)
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PostPosted: Tue May 07, 2002 5:35 am    Post subject: Very cool guys! Reply with quote

Excellent work - this script should go back into Gentoo Proper and be part of the primary distribution. This could save lots of people headaches - and when people say "I've lost my etc directory" on IRC knowledgeable people will be able to tell them how to restore it.

Great work!

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PostPosted: Tue May 07, 2002 5:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Another suggestion :D

For those of you like me who has sometimes backed up a copy that doesn't work this version will keep an archive of your previous three backups. It does the same as the previous script except it dates the file and deletes the oldest backup if there are more than 3 backup files already.

I don't do much shell scripting so if anyone sees any major problems with it let me know.

Code:
#!/sbin/runscript
# Backs up /etc/*

start() {
        local BACKUPDIR="/var/backup"

        local DATE=`date +%Y%m%d`
        local files=`ls -r ${BACKUPDIR}/etc*.tar.gz`
        ebegin "Backing up /etc/* to ${BACKUPDIR}/etc-${DATE}.tar.gz"
        if [ ! -d ${BACKUPDIR} ]
        then
                mkdir ${BACKUPDIR}
        fi

        backup=3
        for arg in ${files}
        do
                if [ "${backup}" -le 0 ]
                then
                        rm -f ${arg}
                else
                        backup=$((${backup} -1))
                fi
        done

        tar -Pzcspf ${BACKUPDIR}/etc-${DATE}.tar.gz /etc
        eend $?
}

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PostPosted: Tue May 07, 2002 6:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have two suggestions.

The first applies to leaf's code and to Roy's code:

    Change that
Code:
mkdir ${BACKUPDIR}
    to
Code:
mkdir -p ${BACKUPDIR}
    This is better if the parent dirs do not exist for some reason.

The second is only for leaf's code:

    Change that
Code:
rm -rf ${BACKUPDIR}/oldetc.tar.gz
    to
Code:
rm -f ${BACKUPDIR}/oldetc.tar.gz
    The -r is only needed for directories.

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PostPosted: Thu May 09, 2002 1:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Where do I put this script and how to get it to run at each boot, any help would be apprecitated.
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PostPosted: Thu May 09, 2002 3:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anonymous wrote:
Where do I put this script and how to get it to run at each boot, any help would be apprecitated.


Save it as backup-etc in /etc/init.d/, then run (as root)

# chmod 0755 /etc/inid.t/backupetc
# rc-update add backupetc default

And it should be fine.
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PostPosted: Thu May 09, 2002 3:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mdpye wrote:
Save it as backup-etc in /etc/init.d/, then run (as root)
Code:

# chmod 0755 /etc/inid.t/backupetc
# rc-update add backupetc default

And it should be fine.


Actually, that should be:

Code:

# chmod 0755 /etc/init.d/backup-etc
# rc-update add backup-etc default


Assuming you do, in fact, name it backup-etc, with a hyphen. Also note the typo in the original, "inid.t". Not trying to be pedantic -- just making sure it works as expected.

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PostPosted: Thu May 09, 2002 11:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Excellent script guys :D

I don't actually bounce my machine often so I have decide to use it as a cron job instead. This way I get a daily backup without having to reboot!

Keep up the good work!

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