I have reallocated it to /home thx On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:33 PM, <cpolish@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > madunix@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >> Should I add to my tar the following option >> Â-p, --preserve-permissions >> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â extract all protection information >> tar -cvzfp ...... >> >> Thanks >> >> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 7:10 PM, John Doe <jdmls@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > From: "madunix@xxxxxxxxx" <madunix@xxxxxxxxx> >> > >> >> I want to create bash script to have a zip copy from a website running >> >> on Âlinux /var/www/htdocs/* local on the same box on different >> >> directory >> >> I am Âthinking to do a local backup using crontab (snapshot my web) >> >> tar -cvzf Â/tmp/website-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M).tgz /var/www/htdocs/* >> >> This command will Âcreate a file /tmp/website-20110101-1459.tgz >> >> I want it run on daily basis and Âto keep the last 5days backup on the >> >> box and remove older version than Â5days. >> > >> > A quick way to do it is to use the day of the week: >> > Âwebsite-$(date +%u).tgz >> > It will automaticaly keep the last 7 days... >> > Otherwise, you will have to use date calculations... > > I hope I'm not duplicating something someone has already said -- > /tmp may not be the best possible choice for backups. A reboot > could potentially "help" by cleansing that directory. Off-host > copies (eg, scp website-20110101-1459.tgz fred@otherhost:/home/fred/backups/) > would address a number of risks. > -- > Charles Polisher > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos