do_backup] copying stdout and stderr to do_backup.log file

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/do_backup.sh b/do_backup.sh
index 6b3d507..5db9ca7 100755
--- a/do_backup.sh
+++ b/do_backup.sh
@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ user_cfg=/home/olpc/.sugar/default/config
 timestamp=`date +%s`
 data=/home/olpc/.sugar/default/datastore/store
 parsing_scr=jparser
+log=do_backup.log
+
+# copying stderr and stdout in a log file
+exec > >(tee -a $log)
+
+echo ---- Starting do_backup script: `date -d @$timestamp` ---- >> $log
 
 if [ -n "$1" ]; then
   data=$1
@@ -48,3 +54,5 @@ tar cjf $serial/${serial}.bz2 ${data} 2>/dev/null #&
 #while `kill -0 $!`; do 
 #done
 echo "The backup is in $serial"
+echo "" >> $log
+echo "" >> $log