OK... it's really starting to come together now... In fact, while I haven't exactly tested any of the backup scenarios using secondary USB devices or multiple partitions, it would seem that you could perform the following different types of backups:
Router USB Drive -> External network device/share (on your local network)
Router USB Drive -> Local network share (could be mounted to a secondary partition on your USB Drive)
Router USB Drive -> Secondary Router USB Drive (plugged into the secondary USB port)
Router USB Drive -> Router USB Drive (backing up to itself into a separate folder... of course, not recommended, but seems plausible)
Router USB Drive Partition 1 -> Router USB Drive Partition 2 (kinda like the one above, but gives it a little more separation)
I know it was asked before... and if you do go down the path of backing your USB drive to your USB drive, I would definitely recommend using that exceptions.txt file, and try to exclude your backup location from being repeatedly being backed up. The safest way to store backups is far away from the device being backed up... so use at your own risk.
What's new? (here's a rehash of everything in this beta)
v1.32b4 -
- ADDED: Created a
secondary commandline switch (-bw) that will launch the script in single color B/W. Thanks to some creative suggestions from
@PeterT and an extreme dislike of any form of color within scripts from
@ColinTaylor, which helped give me a push in this direction. Instructions: The -bw switch much be used secondarily to any other switch... such as "backupmon.sh -backup -bw", or when using "backupmon.sh -setup -bw". Using a switch like this would allow you to then dump screenwrites to a log file without all the messy color escape characters, and make it much more readable.
- ADDED: For the capability to
distinguish between directly attached USB backup devices, and network backup devices using a new menu item, available in the config menu. (See item #2). You will also need to indicate whether your backup target is a "Network" or "USB" device. In the case of a USB Backup Target (directly attached to your router), the script will no longer mount or unmount the device before or after a backup has been completed. It will also use the mount point selector to let you chose an already mounted USB device. By default, "Network" is selected, which in this case requires you to fill in a mount point name of your choice that the script will create for you. Thanks much to
@Quoc Huynh for the helpful suggestion, and for the extensive testing done by
@visortgw!
- FIXED: The order of the config menu items for the
primary, secondary and test backup menu items have been optimized. It now starts with determining what type of media the target device is, and using this info, will determine if menu items need to get grayed out. In the case of selecting the USB option, it will also now force the use of
@Martinski's excellent mount point selector!
- FIXED: Many verbiage changes in the config menu to help standardize terms.
Download Link:
Code:
curl --retry 3 "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ViktorJp/BACKUPMON/master/backupmon-1.32b4.sh" -o "/jffs/scripts/backupmon.sh" && chmod 755 "/jffs/scripts/backupmon.sh"
.
