We now set the path on the target to the zip drive with a

variable. This fixes a bug in the command to eject the zip disk.

LDP/howto/docbook/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO/scripts/get.tester

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 # firewall. You don't want the firewall to be authenticated to the backup
 # system in case the firewall is cracked.
 
-# Time-stamp: <2001-11-19 09:20:06 ccurley get.tester>
+# Time-stamp: <2002-07-01 06:22:58 ccurley get.tester>
 
 # Copyright 2000 through the last date of modification Charles Curley.
 
@@ -31,9 +31,14 @@
 # For more information contact the author, Charles Curley, at
 # http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley/.
 
+# 2002 07 01: We now set the path on the target to the zip drive with
+# a variable. This fixes a bug in the command to eject the zip disk.
+
+
 # The host name of the computer to be backed up.
 
 target=tester
+zip=/mnt/zip
 
 echo Backing up $target
 
@@ -43,14 +48,14 @@ rm -r $target.oldzip
 
 mv $target.zip $target.oldzip
 
-ssh $target "modprobe ppa ; mount -r /mnt/zip"
+ssh $target "modprobe ppa ; mount -r $zip"
 
 echo Copying the ZIP disk.
 
 # -r for recursive copy, -p to preserve times and permissions, -q for
-# -quiet: no progress meter.
+# quiet: no progress meter.
 
-scp -qpr $target:/mnt/zip $target.zip
+scp -qpr $target:$zip $target.zip
 
 echo Testing the results.
 find . -iname "*.gz"  | xargs gunzip -t