OSPi Interval – Data Backup and Restore

I put together a little script that will backup and restore the contents of the …/OSpi/data directory. This is necessary if you want to preserve your local settings when you update to a new version from GitHub. There have been two updates in the last couple of days, which is great!

I hope others will find it useful.

#!/bin/bash



# Backup or restore the OSPi data files - D. Fox - 7/22/2013

# Adjust SRCDIR and BACKUPDIR as required



# Suggested installation:

# copy this script to /usr/local/bin/backup-ospi-data.sh

# cd /usr/local/bin

# ln -s backup-ospi-data.sh restore-ospi-data.sh



SRCDIR="/usr/local/OSPi/data"

BACKUPDIR="/usr/local/etc/OSPi/data"



# create the backup directory (with parents) if necessary

if [ ! -d $BACKUPDIR ];then

mkdir --parents $BACKUPDIR

fi



# restore the data if invoked with restore-ospi-data.sh

if [ `basename $0` == "restore-ospi-data.sh" ]; then

cp -a $BACKUPDIR/* $SRCDIR/

exit 0

fi



# backup the data if invoked with backup-ospi-data.sh

cp -a $SRCDIR/* $BACKUPDIR/

exit 0