rhbackup or other script

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

Thanks to Greg and Igmar for their responses to my backup question.  It
seems as though what I need is a script that closes and copies my data
files to a safe place.  This is an excellent idea.  Is there a way in a
perl or shell script to tell when a file is not open (or not open for
writing)?

RH 5.2 comes with rhbackup which I've never heard of anyone using.  Looking
at it, I would need to add a lot and I'm not fluent in shell script.  Has
anyone already modified the script to retension the tape and do a compare?
On the plus side, it seems to handle remote hosts which would be a plus.

Otherwise, I would need to roll my own.  However, before I reinvented that
wheel, I thought I would see if anyone has a nice script they could send
me?  (Or send me somewhere to get one.)  I would like to keep it as simple
as possible:  use tar, do complete backups each time, etc.

-Alan
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