I need to keep previous backups, but I'll check that out. thanks. Thanks, Tyler Littlefield Visit tds for quality software and web design: http://tysdomain.com skype: st8amnd127 aim: st8amnd2005 msn: tyler at tysdomain.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 6:05 PM Subject: Re: bash script help, and killall resolved > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 04:54:23PM -0600, Tyler Littlefield wrote: >> I've got the tarring done, though for some reason it's preserving the >> whole directory structure and puts the file under home/vertigo/moo/db.db >> rather than just untarring db.db > > This is normal tar behavior. If that's not what you want, then instead > of doing > tar -zcvf ~/backups/`date '+%m-%d-%Y_%H'`.tar.gz ~/moo/db.db > do > cd ~/moo > tar -zcvf ~/backups/`date '+%m-%d-%Y_%H'`.tar.gz db.db > >> I'm at a loss, as to how to make it preserve the date through backup >> though. This is my current script: > > Just a thought, but why not modify your script to create a directory > using the output of date (like you're doing in your tar command now), > put db.db in that directory, and tar up that new directory, instead of > just db.db. You'd also want to write a script that will remove any > directories with yesterday's date. > >> I'm able to ccrypt, but I am looking for solutions on sending it via ftp, >> ideas would be welcome there. > > I'd suggest installing ncftp, and looking at the man page for > ncftpput(1), it looks like it should do what you want. > > Greg > > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkjykNcACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyBNEACfSVdKvu0l8/iLThL0Gsa0Ia1J > RnUAnjobHZAOLy12ebeoDlaMF492w1k1 > =1i/I > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
