Recursive removal of ZFS snapshots for given volume: #!/bin/bash if [ “$1” == “” ]; then echo “You need to specify volume name, all snapshots will be recursively removed” exit 1 fi snapshots=`zfs list -H -o name -t snapshot -r $1`… Continue Reading →

Simple script to keep given amount of example backup files and remove the rest: #!/bin/bash if [ “$3” == “” ]; then echo “Usage: backup-remove.sh <directory> <amount-of-backups-to-keep> <backup-file-prefix> [test]” exit 1 fi directory=”$1″ amount=”$2″ prefix=”$3″ testonly=”$4″ # set internal field… Continue Reading →

Needed automatic upkeep of SSH-tunnels. This script can be used to start SSH-tunnels at boot and also to keep them up by running service ssh-tunnels start periodically from example cron. Here is the init.d-script itself: /etc/init.d/ssh-tunnels #!/bin/bash ################################################# ################################################# # NOTE: Usually… Continue Reading →

There has always been a lots of need for something like this. So now I FINALLY went and wrote this very simple script. I am very surprised that I have not been able to find this using google, or that… Continue Reading →