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Martin Hope
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Asked: 2010-12-17 03:37:20 +0800 CST
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I wrote a simple bash script to backup certain files daily to a backup mount and keep the last 3 days of backups. It's obviously too simple, as I'm occasionally getting odd behaviour that could be explained by the first mv being excecuted before the rm is complete.

Here's the script:

#!/bin/bash

mount /mnt/backups

while [ ! -d /mnt/backups/dailyBackup-0 ]
do
        echo "Backup mount not present, sleeping..."
        sleep 30
done

rm -r /mnt/backups/dailyBackup-2
mv /mnt/backups/dailyBackup-1 /mnt/backups/dailyBackup-2
mv /mnt/backups/dailyBackup-0 /mnt/backups/dailyBackup-1

dirname="/mnt/backups/dailyBackup-0"
mkdir $dirname

cd /
rsync -qr --stats root etc var $dirname

umount /mnt/backups

Although this is fine a lot of the time, I sometimes end up with the following, which looks like dailyBackup-1 is being moved before dailyBackup-2 has finished being deleted. If that is what's happening, what is the best way to prevent it?

/mnt/backups/dailyBackup-0:
total 0
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2010-12-07 03:27 var
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2010-12-07 02:39 root
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2010-12-07 02:38 etc

/mnt/backups/dailyBackup-1:
total 0
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2010-12-06 03:26 var
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2010-12-06 02:32 root
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2010-12-06 02:32 etc

/mnt/backups/dailyBackup-2:
total 0
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2010-12-07 02:36 var
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2010-12-05 03:21 dailyBackup-1
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