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check that mount point is an NFS export before copying to it

I am copying some backup files to a NAS by connecting an NFS export on the NAS to a mount point on my linus box. I then copy the files to it with a cron job that runs nightly.

I have mounted the NAS to /mnt/nas.

How can I test that the mount point is active before I copy to it? I wouldn't want to copy to /mnt/nas unless it was actually connected to the NAS. (I presume that would copy to the root partition??)

Thanks,
-dog

You could put a file on the NAS called nas_is_mounted
Then test to see if it exists at your mountpoint. If it doesn't then the NAS is not mounted.

Otherwise, you could check the output of mount with and without the NAS being mounted and spot the difference.

You can test that easily with a combination of mount and grep. The code

Code:

mount | grep /mnt/nas

will return exitcode 0 if the NAS is mounted and 1 if it is not mounted.

I ended up with this:

Code:

"$(df -P /mnt/nas |tail -1 |awk '{print $NF}')" = "/mnt/nas"

Hi,

I'm trying to do exactly the same thing : copying some files from a debian to a nas synology mounted as nfs to /mnt/nas.

I then copy the files to it with a cron job that runs nightly a script.

in the /etc/fstab :

Code:

192.168.1.102:/volume1/test /mnt/nas/ nfs user,noauto 0 0

And i don't find how to test if the nas is always mounted and online. because :

Quote:

I wouldn't want to copy to /mnt/nas unless it was actually connected to the NAS. (I presume that would copy to the root partition??)

this is exactly what happened and make the debian box crasy (partition root full at 100%!!!)

Could you explain me more about and how to use it :

Code:

"$(df -P /mnt/nas |tail -1 |awk '{print $NF}')" = "/mnt/nas"

thanks

Code:

if [ "`mount | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 3 -d ' ' | grep '^/mnt/nas'`" != "" ] ; then

do_rsync_func

else

echo 'NAS not mounted !'

echo 'Exiting script '"$0"' now !'

echo 'Bye'

fi

Thanks for your answer

In first it seemes to work but if i turn off the nas and execute the script again :

Code:

building file list ... done

^Crsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at rsync.c(543) [sender=3.0.7]

This is my script :

Code:

# Script to backup personal files to the external NAS drive as NFS.

# Specify the mount point here (DO NOT end mount_point with a forward-slash).

mount_point='/mnt/test'

tobackup='/home/scripts/'



echo "#####"

echo ""

# Test if the NAS is mounted and online

if [ "`mount | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 3 -d ' ' | grep '^$mount_point'`" != "" ] ; then

# Do the backup

rsync -var --stats --delete-after $tobackup $mount_point/

else

# Check whether target volume is mounted, and mount it if not.

  if ! mountpoint -q ${mount_point}/; then

          echo "Mounting the external USB drive."

          echo "Mountpoint is ${mount_point}"

          if ! mount ${mount_point}; then

                  echo "An error code was returned by mount command!"

                  exit 5

          else echo "Mounted successfully.";

          fi

  else echo "${mount_point} is already mounted.";

  fi

echo 'NAS not mounted !'

echo 'Exiting script '"$0"' now !'

echo 'Bye'

fi

Sorry i'm newbie with linux !!!

Finally i made another script that seems to be ok if i turn off the nas server or turn off his ethernet cable

If someone nice could read it and tell me my error it will be wonderful :)

This is the script (my first one) to make a synchronisation each day of different directories to a NAS server :

Code:

#!/bin/bash

### sauvegarde différentielle journalière

### ATTENTION : placer un fichier ".test" a la racine du montage NFS

### In /etc/fstab : 192.168.1.102:/volume1/test  /mnt/test/  nfs  user,noauto 0  0

###CRON : 0 5 * * * /home/scripts/backup.bash > /home/scripts/logs/backup.log 2>&1            pour lancer le script à 05h00 tous les jours.





### Variables

IPNAS="192.168.1.102" # IP server NAS

DIRNAS=/volume1/test  # REPERTOIRE PARTAGE DU SERVEUR NAS

DIR2NAS="/mnt/test"  # répertoire local vers lequel sera monté le partage réseau

#RSYNC_OPTIONS="-acRz --delete-during --delete-excluded --ignore-errors --force --numeric-ids --partial --stats --timeout=900"

#RSYNC_OPTIONS="-rltgoDvh --ignore-errors --force --stats --progress"

RSYNC_OPTIONS="-var --stats --delete-after"  



# Directories to backup

DIR2BCKP="()"        # ne pas modifier !

DIR2BCKP[0]="/home/prive/"

DIR2BCKP[1]="/home/public/"

# Directories to create for backup 

DIR2CREATE="()"        # ne pas modifier !

DIR2CREATE[0]="prive"

DIR2CREATE[1]="public"

# Exclusions

EXCLUDE="()"  # ne pas modifier !

EXCLUDE[0]="exclude_prive.txt"  #liste des fichiers et repertoires a exclure

EXCLUDE[1]=""

## Temps d'execution du script

START=$(date +%s)



## Journalisation

LOG="/home/scripts/logs/execution_$(date +%A)-result.log"

LOG_RSYNC="/home/scripts/logs/rsync_$(date +%A)-result.log"

#rm /home/scripts/logs/rsync_$(date +%A)-result.log





### system commands used by this script

declare -i count=${#DIR2BCKP[@]}

declare -i i=0

# Temps d'execution du script

START=$(date +%s) 

# internationalisation

. /etc/default/locale

export LANG



## Debut du script pour les logs

echo "##### Debut de la copie en date du $(date) #####" >> $LOG

 

if [ "$(ping -c 3 $IPNAS | grep '0 received')" ]

  then

    echo "Server NAS not online !" >> $LOG

    exit 1

  else

 

        if ! df | grep -q '$IPNAS:$DIRNAS'

        then

                mount -t nfs $IPNAS:$DIRNAS $DIR2NAS

                            echo "Server NAS mounted successfully." >> $LOG

        fi

fi

 

if [ -f $DIR2NAS/.test ]; then



  while [ "$i" -lt "$count" ]; do

        # If not exists backup directories create them

        [ -d "$DIR2NAS/${DIR2CREATE[$i]}" ] && mkdir "$DIR2NAS/${DIR2CREATE[$i]}"

        # do the backup

              RSYNC_RES=$(rsync $RSYNC_OPTIONS "${DIR2BCKP[$i]}" --log-file=$LOG_RSYNC --exclude-from "${EXCLUDE[$i]}" "$DIR2NAS/$(date +%A)/${DIR2CREATE[$i]}")

        echo $RSYNC_RES >> $LOG        

        i=$(($i+1))

  done        

  ## Afficher le temps d'execution            

  STOP=$(date +%s)                            

  RUNTIME=`expr $STOP - $START`

  ## envoi du mail (a faire!!!! je sais pas comment)

  #mailx vmail < $LOG ;

  

  if ! umount ${DIR2NAS}; then

                echo "An error code was returned by umount command !" >> $LOG

                exit 5

        else echo "Server NAS dismounted successfully." >> $LOG

        fi

else

  echo "Server NAS not mounted !"  >> $LOG

fi



## Fin du script de log

## test si tout ok !!!! pas sur

if [ $? -eq 0 ]

 then {

        ETAT=Parfait

 }

 else {

        ETAT=Erreur

 }

fi

echo "=> Resultat : "$ETAT >> $LOG 

printf "Temps d'execution : %02d:%02d:%02d\n" $((RUNTIME/3600)) $((RUNTIME/60%60)) $((RUNTIME%60)) >> $LOG 

echo "##### Fin de la copie en date du $(date +"%d-%m-%Y a %H:%M") #####" >> $LOG 



exit

If i run this script on shell, all is ok

But if I cron it, i have the error : rsync: failed to open exclude file exclude_prive.txt: No such file or directory (2) and i don't understannd why ?

cron doesn't login as your user, therefore exclude_prive.txt is not in your pwd (ie current dir).
For cron jobs you need to ensure all cmds and files have the complete pathname attached, OR at the start, cd into the relevant dir and source whatever setup cmds you need.
Another thing; you attempt to mount the NAS and echo "Server NAS mounted successfully." WITHOUT checking to see if it has...
Either check $? immediately, or grep the entry from /etc/mnttab.

Incidentally, if you add

Code:

set -xv

at the top of your code, you'll see exactly what it's doing if you re-direct std, stderr to a log file.

thanks chrism01 :)

So i write the entire path to exclude_file.

and test the result of mount

The script now :

Code:

#!/bin/bash

### sauvegarde différentielle journalière

### ATTENTION : placer un fichier ".test" a la racine du montage NFS

### In /etc/fstab : 192.168.1.102:/volume1/test  /mnt/test/  nfs  user,noauto 0  0

###CRON : 0 5 * * 1-5 /home/scripts/backup.bash > /home/scripts/logs/backup.log 2>&1            pour lancer le script à 05h00 du lundi au vendredi.



# internationalisation

. /etc/default/locale

export LANG



### Variables

IPNAS="192.168.1.102" # IP server NAS

DIRNAS=/volume1/test  # REPERTOIRE PARTAGE DU SERVEUR NAS

DIR2NAS="/mnt/test"  # répertoire local vers lequel sera monté le partage réseau

#RSYNC_OPTIONS="-acRz --delete-during --delete-excluded --ignore-errors --force --numeric-ids --partial --stats --timeout=900"

#RSYNC_OPTIONS="-rltgoDvh --ignore-errors --force --stats --progress"

RSYNC_OPTIONS="-var --stats --delete-after"  



# Directories to backup

DIR2BCKP="()"        # ne pas modifier !

DIR2BCKP[0]="/home/prive/"

DIR2BCKP[1]="/home/public/"

# Directories to create for backup 

DIR2CREATE="()"        # ne pas modifier !

DIR2CREATE[0]="prive"

DIR2CREATE[1]="public"

# Exclusions

EXCLUDE="()"  # ne pas modifier !

EXCLUDE[0]="/home/scripts/exclude_prive.txt"  #liste des fichiers et repertoires a exclure

EXCLUDE[1]=""

## Temps d'execution du script

START=$(date +%s)



## Journalisation

LOG="/home/scripts/logs/execution_$(date +%A)-result.log"

LOG_RSYNC="/home/scripts/logs/rsync_$(date +%A)-result.log"

#rm /home/scripts/logs/rsync_$(date +%A)-result.log





### system commands used by this script

declare -i count=${#DIR2BCKP[@]}

declare -i i=0

# Temps d'execution du script

START=$(date +%s) 



## Debut du script pour les logs

echo "##### Debut de la copie en date du $(date) #####" >> $LOG

 

if [ "$(ping -c 3 $IPNAS | grep '0 received')" ]

  then

    echo "Server NAS not online !" >> $LOG

    exit 1

  else

        if ! df | grep -q '$IPNAS:$DIRNAS'

        then

          mount -t nfs $IPNAS:$DIRNAS $DIR2NAS

          if [ $? -eq 0 ]

          then {

          echo "Server NAS mounted successfully." >> $LOG

          }

          else {

          echo "Server NAS not mounted successfully !" >> $LOG

          exit 1

          }

          fi

        fi

fi

 

if [ -f $DIR2NAS/.test ]; then

  # If not exists backup directories create them

  [ -d "$DIR2NAS/$(date +%A)" ] || mkdir "$DIR2NAS/$(date +%A)"        



  while [ "$i" -lt "$count" ]; do        

    #[ -d "$DIR2NAS/${DIR2CREATE[$i]}" ] && mkdir "$DIR2NAS/${DIR2CREATE[$i]}"

    # do the backup

    RSYNC_RES=$(rsync $RSYNC_OPTIONS "${DIR2BCKP[$i]}" --log-file=$LOG_RSYNC --exclude-from=${EXCLUDE[$i]} "$DIR2NAS/$(date +%A)/${DIR2CREATE[$i]}")

    echo $RSYNC_RES >> $LOG        

    i=$(($i+1))

  done        

  

  ## Afficher le temps d'execution            

  STOP=$(date +%s)                            

  RUNTIME=`expr $STOP - $START`

  ## envoi du mail (a faire!!!! je sais pas comment)

  #mailx vmail < $LOG ;

  if ! umount ${DIR2NAS}; then

                echo "An error code was returned by umount command !" >> $LOG

                exit 5

        else echo "Server NAS dismounted successfully." >> $LOG

        fi

else

  echo "Server NAS not mounted !"  >> $LOG

fi



## Fin du script de log

printf "Temps d'execution : %02d:%02d:%02d\n" $((RUNTIME/3600)) $((RUNTIME/60%60)) $((RUNTIME%60)) >> $LOG 

echo "##### Fin de la copie en date du $(date +"%d-%m-%Y a %H:%M") #####" >> $LOG 



exit