Am thinking to have this in my script #!/bin/bash tar -cvzf /tmp/website-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M).tgz /var/www/htdocs/* find /tmp/website/website*.tgz -ctime +5 -exec rm {} \; # removes older then 5 days crontab it 30 6 * * * /mypath/myscript On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Nelson <ntserafica at gmail.com> wrote: > You could create a script and have a variable date --date="5 days ago" > append to your tar file and after that, combine it with if syntax. If match, > then rm. > > HTH > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 3:31 PM, madunix at gmail.com <madunix at gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> I want to create bash script to have a zip copy from a website running >> on linux /var/www/htdocs/* local on the same box on different >> directory >> I am thinking to do a local backup using crontab (snapshot my web) >> tar -cvzf /tmp/website-$(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. >> > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >