On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, madunix@gmail.com wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: "madunix@gmail.com" madunix@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] backup script
I have reallocated it to /home thx
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:33 PM, cpolish@surewest.net wrote:
madunix@gmail.com wrote:
Should I add to my tar the following option -p, --preserve-permissions extract all protection information tar -cvzfp ......
Thanks
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 7:10 PM, John Doe jdmls@yahoo.com wrote:
From: "madunix@gmail.com" madunix@gmail.com
I want to create bash script to have a zip copy from a website running on linux /var/www/htdocs/* local on the same box on different directory I am thinking to do a local backup using crontab (snapshot my web) tar -cvzf /tmp/website-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M).tgz /var/www/htdocs/* This command will create a file /tmp/website-20110101-1459.tgz I want it run on daily basis and to keep the last 5days backup on the box and remove older version than 5days.
A quick way to do it is to use the day of the week: website-$(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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