tar czfv /usr/local/temp/`date +backup.%Y%m%d.tar.gz` /path/to/dir/
Should work too...
HTH,
Christopher Hollow
Ed Wilts wrote:
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 01:42:03PM -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote:
I think this will work. I'd like to make daily and weekly backups. What i need to know now is how to change the file name of each new
archive so that it doesn't write over the previous day's. Any ideas?
Have a look at the multiple of options to the date command. Something like this should work for you (thinking out loud without any testing): DM=`date +%d%b` tar zcf $DM.tar.gz <source>
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