Re: Looking for a Backup Program

On Friday 13 Sep 2002 02:42, Kent Jantz wrote:
> I'm looking for a backup program that will do repeatable schedlued
> backups, doesn't have to be to fancy.  I looked at Rdiff but I don't
> know if it's repeatable.
>
> Kent
>
tar?

for example /etc/cron.daily/backup-peter1:

#!/bin/bash
echo "Job started at $(date)."
echo
# Backup jobs for cron.daily...
downloadfrom="/home/peter/"
downloadto="/bak/daily/"
stub="gentoo1.4-peter-"
dirs=".kde3 OpenOffice.org1.0 Mail win"
for dir in $dirs; do
	echo "Deleting stale $(date +%A) backups of $dir ..."
	echo
	rm -f $downloadto$(date +%a)-$stub$dir-2*
done
cd $downloadfrom
for dir in $dirs; do
	echo
	echo "Backing up $downloadfrom$dir to $downloadto ..."
	echo "Job started at $(date)."
	echo "            Please be patient."
	tar zcvf $downloadto$(date +%a)-$stub$dir-$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H%M).tar.gz 
$dir
done
echo
echo "All finished at $(date)."

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