Without replication what would happen if your Ahsay OBS user partition became corrupted?
With replication what would you do in this scenario: User data is on a separate partition than the system install; the storage partition becomes corrupted BUT does not lose the mount point; eventually, the attached mount point wilh "null" data will be replicated. Your source and destination are now all gone.
The following couple options are preventative. They don't save your data, but they do enable you to recover all users; thus, allowing all client to perform a full backup immediately.
Just a thought!
#/bin/bash
#Author: Jim Robinson
#Date: 3 Dec 2008
#Contact: www.PeakBackup.com
#
#Description: Backup all user db information to include reports
filename=`date +%d%m%Y-%H:%M`
find /path/to/a/directory/ \
/path/to/another/directory2/ \
/path/to/another/diretory3 \
-name db -maxdepth 2 -type d | zip -rp $filename.zip -@
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#/bin/bash
#Author: Jim Robinson
#Date: 3 Dec 2008
#Contact: www.PeakBackup.com
#
#Description: Backup user login and backup set information only
filename=`date +%d%m%Y-%H:%M`
find /path/to/a/directory/ \
/path/to/another/directory2/ \
/path/to/another/diretory3 \
-name Profile.xml -maxdepth 3 -type f | zip -rp $filename.zip -@
