tbackup.sh
by peter hine
I noticed that while the rights facility under Linux was useful for telling you the rights for a particular directory, it wasn’t suitable or really useful for anything more. NetWare has trustees.nlm that can backup a volumes trustees to a XML sheet, but Linux doesn’t have that. Simply backing up the
.XML sheet in ._NETWARE directory and copying it back in when needed (or editing it to add particular trustees) only worked occasionally.
I was desiring a tool that would record the current rights in a way that tbackup.exe used to do (when it worked). So here it is.
The ZIP file includes tbackup.sh.
Usage:
tbackup.sh [-f dir] [-r] Creates a trestore.sh in the root of each volume unless -f is used. -r relative. Don't include the /media/nss directory. -f do one directory only, by default program does every volume in /media/nss.
Example output of what trestore.sh would look like:
#!/bin/bash # Restore rights to volume DATA rights -f "/media/nss/DATA" -r irf rights -f "/media/nss/DATA/apps" -r rf trustee ".CN=Deploy.OU=SubOU.OU=Network.O=Company.T=COMPANY_TREE" rights -f "/media/nss/DATA/deploy" -r rf trustee ".CN=Deploy.OU=SubOU.OU=Network.O=Company.T=COMPANY_TREE" rights -f "/media/nss/DATA/user/TestScoundrel" -r rwcefm trustee ".CN=TestScoundrel.OU=OU2.OU=Location.O=Company.T=COMPANY_TREE"
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Hi,
I just tried using tbackup.sh, but throws errors.
systst-ts-53:~ # sh tbackup.sh
find: warning: you have specified the -maxdepth option after a non-option argument -type, but options are not positional (-maxdepth affects tests specified before it as well as those specified after it). Please specify options before other arguments.
tbackup.sh: line 97: /tmp/t.txt: No such file or directory
systst-ts-53:~ # sh tbackup.sh -r
find: warning: you have specified the -maxdepth option after a non-option argument -type, but options are not positional (-maxdepth affects tests specified before it as well as those specified after it). Please specify options before other arguments.
tbackup.sh: line 97: /tmp/t.txt: No such file or directory
systst-ts-53:~ # sh tbackup.sh -r -f
Internal error !
systst-ts-53:~ #
any help is appreciated.
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Dear,
I need to use this script but, I still do NOT know how to do the restore itself.
Thanks for your help.
MB
Read the warning message 1st, and let’s do what it says — we’ll need to put the maxdepth option before the type option. Edit tbackup.sh and find line 226
Change it from:
for VOL in `find /media/nss -type d -maxdepth 1`; do
To:
for VOL in `find /media/nss -maxdepth 1 -type d`; do
Save your changes and go.
I inherited a network where some of the groups have spaces in their names. The script as posted chops these off, but with one tiny modification it will handle these correctly:
Find line 173 in the script:
USER=`echo "$ULINE"|cut -f 2 -d ' '`
and add a dash (-) after the 2 to make cut include that field and the rest of the line:
USER=`echo "$ULINE"|cut -f 2- -d ' '`
Hi,
Sorry but my question may look silly, but, here it is.
I did run tbackup.sh and all is fine.
It creates a trestore.sh.
But how do I do the rstore itself?
I ran trestore.sh with the full path and the message I receive is:
“error adding trustee:error finding file”
Any idea?
Thanks.