Do you hate having a few giant directories that hold all of your packages? Do you hate installing something only to find that it doesn\'t work properly, and it doesn\'t have a make uninstall? If so, this script is for you.
pyunzip is a small platform-neutral Python script which resembles the most important functionality of tools like Winzip: open a ZIP archive on-the-fly, display its contents and allow opeing a file in the archive for viewing by simply double-clicking it.
CDRX.pl is a perl script designed to handle CD-R/W device setup, CD-R/W blanking, burning, and ISO creation. It can create ISO's or burn CD-R/W's from another CD, from a directory of files, or even allows you to choose a "mix" of files.
A basic console script backup systems without X. Rather than remembering the perplexing tar options, this will use a .conf file, and prompt the user for information. USER BEWARE!!! This was mostly designed for me to practice my bash skills
A Php cgi script for mirroring of an ftp. More along the lines of synchronizing folders than for mirroring. Supports many party sharing of a folder of data.
dl is a perl script which offers a quick solution to the difficulty of recovering deleted files in UNIX. Files given to dl are compressed, moved to a private directory, and deleted only when they haven't been recovered for a configurable amount of time.
MySQL Check & Backup & Notification
This is a script that check, periodically the tables of a MySQL Server. Using the BACKUP, CHECK, OPTIMIZE and ANALYZE, the script checks if everything is ok and alert you if anything is wrong.
LRSR / Linux Restore ScRipt is a command line (Bash/Perl) script for restoring system information. LRSR also can be edited to create "Mini" distros from a pre-existing UNIX/Linux computer.
This bash script, in conjunction with a java program, will backup your mysql database(s) to a file using mysqldump, and gzips it. Depending on setup, it will either e-mail you the file, or leave it in the installation directory.
This is just a simple bash2 script for burning cds. You have the ability to simply copy data or audio disc, burn images and directories to a cdrom via the commandline, without remembering all the cdrecord, mkisofs or cdrdao arguments. And so now you know
A simple BASH script to do nightly backups to tarballs to a seperate hard drive (not to tape). Supports full and incremental backups. Ideal for linux home users to easily backup all or parts of their system, provided they have an extra hard drive.
CoolPackager is a program which will take a .tar.gz file and a installation script file and create a self-extracting executable scipt.
Install it on your system by typing this command as root:
lynx -source cpkg.sourceforge.net/cpkg | sh
Bash script to clone the package state of a debian system, or, in other words,
the list of currently installed packages, to another system(s). It is fairly simple, but serves it's purpose very well.
A shell script to copy long files into several floppy disks. It tar,
compress, uuencoded and split input files. Then copy the generated
files in the necessary number of floppy disks. After, all the process
can be reversed through the script refloppy
This is a very simple perl script that create copies of selected files to a dropbox shared folder. It is intended primarily to create a backup for .config files in home folder and such.