[dev] Reposting in hope of feedback

[Martin Edenhofer]

Hi Steve,

yes, the backup.pl was written for unix. Your patch looks good.

I'll test/verify it and come back to you....

Greetings,

  -Martin

On Mar 24, 2008, at 23:49 , Pulver, Steve wrote:

>
>
> From: otrs-bounces at otrs.org [mailto:otrs-bounces at otrs.org] On Behalf  
> Of Pulver, Steve
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 4:09 PM
> To: otrs at otrs.org
> Subject: [otrs] OTRS Backup for Windows
>
> Can anyone comment on the following?  We were trying to run the  
> backup script (OTRS is installed on a Windows box) and had to make  
> the following changes to get it to work properly.  We changed the  
> process for directory change as noted below.  Is there another way  
> we should be getting backups to run?  Will this cause issues for us  
> in the future?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Steve
>
> From: Fisher, Michael
> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 5:26 PM
> To: Clary, Steve; Pulver, Steve
> Subject: OTRS Backup Changes
>
> Steve, Steve--
>
> I changed the backup script from doing the directory change in the  
> subshell (system) process to directly from perl, and this helped,  
> because Perl can interpret the hybrid DOS/UNIX-style paths (i.e. "C:/ 
> OTRS/otrs") better than the DOS shell can:
>
> C:\OTRS>cd c:/otrs/otrs
> The system cannot find the path specified.
>
> This corrected the failure we had--there might be a cleaner way to  
> put it into the script, but I was just moving quickly.
>
> --- backup.pl.orig      2008-03-20 17:16:07.716496300 -0400
> +++ backup.pl   2008-03-20 17:15:15.795618200 -0400
> @@ -182,7 +183,8 @@
>  # backup Kernel/Config.pm
>  print "Backup $Directory/Config.tar.gz ... ";
> -if (!system("cd $Home && tar -czf $Directory/Config.tar.gz Kernel/ 
> Config.pm Kernel/Config/Files/ZZZA*.pm Kernel/Config/ 
> GenericAgen*.pm")) {
> +chdir($Home);
> +if (!system("tar -czf $Directory/Config.tar.gz Kernel/Config.pm  
> Kernel/Config/Files/ZZZA*.pm Kernel/Config/GenericAgen*.pm")) {
>      print "done\n";
>  }
>  else {
> @@ -192,7 +194,8 @@
>  # backup application
>  if ($FullBackup) {
>      print "Backup $Directory/Application.tar.gz ... ";
> -    if (!system("cd $Home && tar -czf $Directory/ 
> Application.tar.gz .")) {
> +    chdir($Home);
> +    if (!system("tar -czf $Directory/Application.tar.gz ")) {
>          print "done\n";
>      }
>      else {
>
> --
> Mike Fisher     Michael_Fisher at urmc.rochester.edu       585-275-6884
> University of Rochester                                 School of  
> Nursing
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