On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, madunix at gmail.com wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > From: "madunix at gmail.com" <madunix at gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] backup script > > I have reallocated it to /home > thx > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:33 PM, <cpolish at surewest.net> wrote: >> madunix at 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 at yahoo.com> wrote: >>> > From: "madunix at gmail.com" <madunix at 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 at 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -----------------------------------------------------------------