[arm-allstar] file-backup.sh anomalies

Doug Crompton wa3dsp at gmail.com
Sun Feb 3 15:09:03 EST 2019


Tony,

 Yes, that should be backup.conf not usb-backup.conf in the script. I will
fix.


*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

*http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*



On Sun, Feb 3, 2019 at 3:03 PM "Tony Ross via ARM-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> In the /usr/local/sbin/file-backup.sh script are some old artifacts that
> may cause confusion to others as they did to me until I examined the
> script. There are two references to the now-defunct
> /usr/local/etc/usb-backup.conf file, according to
> https://hamvoip.org/backup-howto.pdf one of which is displayed in the
> user message when one runs the script, the other is a comment:
>
> ...
> cat << _EOF
>     +=================================================+
>     |  This script backs up your node information and |
>     |  files which are likely to change and are not   |
>     |  included in hamvoip updates. Users can change  |
>     |  the included files and directories in the      |
>     |  /usr/local/etc/usb-backup.conf file. Backups   |
>     |  are to a standard USB stick with vFAT, exFAT,  |
>     |  ntfs, or Linux formatting or if a stick is not |
>     |  available to the '/' top directory where you   |
>     |  can copy to another system or medium.          |
>     +=================================================+
>
> _EOF
> ...
> # User changes to the include list should be made in the
> # /usr/local/etc/usb-backup.conf file.
> ...
>
> This is easily remedied with "sed -i 's|usb-backup.conf|backup.conf|g'
> /usr/local/sbin/file-backup.sh" or the next admin update.
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