You could create a script and have a variable date --date="5 days ago" append to your tar file and after that, combine it with if syntax. If match, then rm. HTH On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 3:31 PM, madunix at gmail.com <madunix at gmail.com>wrote: > 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. > Can you point me out. > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110125/c1068b41/attachment-0005.html>