On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, madunix@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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From: "madunix@xxxxxxxxx" <madunix@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: backup script
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
       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.
Hi Charles.
You might find this php script I wrote handy:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=248436
I use a seperate 500GB drive just for storing backups of
various things I don't want to loose. Then at certain
intervals (ie when I think needed), I burn the backups to CD
or DVD - just to be extra safe!
Most of my backup scripts are run by cron jobs overnight.
Kind Regards,
Keith Roberts
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