Script rear-automated-test.sh

The script rear-automated-test.sh is the hart of the “Relax-and-Recover Automated Testing” project. The functions used by this script are located under the lib/ sub-directory.

It is important to know you need *root priveleges to run this script.

Usage of the script (help option)

Currently there is no man page for this script, but the help option should be sufficient to get you going.

 sudo ./rear-automated-test.sh -h
Usage: rear-automated-test.sh [-d distro] [-b <boot method>] [-s <stable rear version>] [-p provider] [-c rear-config-file.conf] -vh
        -d: The distribution to use for this automated test (default: centos7)
        -b: The boot method to use by our automated test (default: PXE)
        -s: The <stable rear version> is the specific version we want to test, e.g. 2.3 (default: <empty> )
        -p: The vagrant <provider> to use (default: virtualbox)
        -c: The ReaR config file we want to use with this test (default: PXE-booting-example-with-URL-style.conf)
        -l: The ReaR test logs top directory (default: /export/rear-tests/logs)
        -h: This help message.
        -v: Revision number of this script.

Comments:
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<distro>: select the distribution you want to use for these testings
<boot method>: select the rescue image boot method (default PXE) - supported are PXE and ISO
<stable rear version>: select the specific version to test, e.g. 2.3. Empty means use the latest unstable version
<provider>: as we use vagrant we need to select the provider to use (virtualbox, libvirt)
<rear-config-file.conf>: is the ReaR config file we would like to use to drive the test scenario with (optional with PXE)
<logs directory>: is the direcory where the logs are kept of each run including the rear recovery log of the recover VM