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any way to undelete entries?, posted by Mark Bergman on Thu Feb 21 23:23:19 2013

Re: any way to undelete entries?, posted by Stefan Ritt on Fri Feb 22 08:19:27 2013

Re: any way to undelete entries?, posted by Andreas Luedeke on Fri Feb 22 10:58:18 2013

Message ID: 67454 Entry time: Fri Feb 22 10:58:18 2013 In reply to: 67452

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Author:

Andreas Luedeke

Author Email:

andreas.luedeke@psi.ch

Category:

Question

OS:

Linux

ELOG Version:

2.92

Subject:

Re: any way to undelete entries?

Mark Bergman wrote:

Is there any way within eLog to undelete entries?

I wrote to scripts to backup the logbook files:

elog_backup_daily creates a tar file of all new entries of the last 25 hours and keeps these backups for 90 days
elog_backup_hourly creates a tar file of the entries of the last 65 minutes and keeks these backups for one week
exclude-logbooks specifies which files not to backup

This allows you at least to recover deleted entries by hand as an administrator.

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#!/bin/sh
# source file directory
srcd=/usr/local/elog/

# backup all files newer than 25 hours
date=$(date -d "-25hours" "+%Y%m%d %H:%M")
# backup file directory
tard=/logbooks_backup
# backup tar file name
tarf=$tard/$(date +%Y%m%d_%a.tar)
# do not backup files that match patterns in this file
excf=/usr/local/elog/utilities/exclude-logbooks
# create backup
cd $srcd
tar --ignore-case -X $excf --newer "$date" -cf $tarf . logbooks/*

# copy passwd.txt
if [ "$(date +%u)" -eq 1 ]
then
	passwd=$tard/passwd_$(date +%Y%m%d_%a.txt)
	cp $srcd/passwd.txt $passwd
	gzip -9 $passwd
fi
# delete all backups older than 90 days
find $tard -mtime +90 -name "*_???.tar"           -exec rm -f {} +
find $tard -mtime +90 -name "passwd_*_???.txt.gz" -exec rm -f {} +

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#!/bin/sh
# source file directory
srcd=/usr/local/elog/

# backup all files newer than 25 hours
date=$(date -d "-65minutes" "+%Y%m%d %H:%M")
# backup file directory
tard=/logbooks_backup
# backup tar file name
tarf=$tard/$(date +%a%H%M.tar)
rm -f $tarf
# do not backup files that match patterns in this file
excf=/usr/local/elog/utilities/exclude-logbooks
# create backup
cd $srcd
tar --ignore-case -X $excf --newer "$date" -cf $tarf . logbooks/*

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*.png.png
*.gif.png
*.jpg.png
*.pdf.png
oldLogbooks/*
logbooks/elog.log
passwd.txt
ssl/*
logbooks/Backup/*
logbooks/old/*

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