[CentOS] backup script
John Doe
jdmls at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 25 17:10:07 UTC 2011
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...
JD
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