Utility: Linux Admining

[Ornedan]

Most of my backup script is about finding the current turn number and handling edge cases like being somehow called to backup a non-existent game (not detecting conditions like that will at best result in the script crashing and at worst data loss as it goes blindly ahead to do something stupid).


Doing

--preexec /home/dom/backup.sh "$GAME"

and

#!/bin/bash
rsync -a "/home/dom/dominions3/savedgames/$1" /home/dom/dominions3/backup

would have your backup command be parametrised by game name, so it'll backup each game to separate directory. Though I guess that might have been what you meant?