working on the backup and backup restore functionalities.

1 files changed, 44 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/SOURCE/CORE/core-backup.sh b/SOURCE/CORE/core-backup.sh
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+function backup_data() {
+	BACKUPDIR="$1"
+    echo "backing up data in $BACKUPDIR"
+
+
+    if [ -d $BACKUPDIR ]; then
+    	if [ $(/bin/ls -A $BACKUPDIR) ]; then
+	    	echo "$BACKUPDIR is not empty. Cannot continue"
+	    	exit
+	    else
+	    	echo "$BACKUPDIR is ok. Continuing!"
+	    fi
+	else
+		# BACKUPDIR doesn't exists
+		echo "$BACKUPDIR doesn't exists"
+		read -r -p "Do you want me to create it for you? (y/N) " ANSWER
+		case $ANSWER in
+			y|Y )
+				mkdir -p $BACKUPDIR
+				;;
+			* )
+				echo "No changes made. Exiting"
+				exit
+				;;
+		esac
+    fi
+    # ok, we have a backup directory
+    if [ -r $RCFILE ]; then
+    	BCKUP_COMM=$(rsync -avz --progress ${RCFILE} ${BASEDIR}/* ${BACKUPDIR})
+    else
+    	BCKUP_COMM=$(rsync -avz --progress ${BASEDIR}/* ${BACKUPDIR})
+    fi
+    # run the command
+    if [ "$BCKUP_COMM" ]; then	
+	    echo -e "BASE directory:\t\t$BASEDIR"
+	    echo -e "BACKUP directory:\t$BACKUPDIR"
+	    echo; echo "BACKUP COMPLETED"
+	fi
+}
+
+function backup_restore() {
+	echo "restoring backup"
+}
+