Linux Help... Cron Jobs

Dud3! · Posted: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 21:00:46 Post Subject:

Misty is right on the tar usage:

tar -c (create) v (verbose, no need for this) z (gzip compression, use j for bzip2) f (file name) [file name] [directory to be tarballed]

So: tar -czf 2004-12-08-my_stuff_backup.tar.gz my_stuff

If you want to find out more about tar or anything else: man tar

Also, use /bin/bash. Grin

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 09:49:44 Post Subject:

I think it is all set, just the way I want it now! It is set to create a gzip archive of the whole site at 3AM everyday, and store the file on the second drive in the server. Each daily backup just has the day in the file name, and when a week is up, that file is overwritten. So, I'll always have a week's worth of backups to look at online, which is what I wanted. Grin

IceNine · Posted: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 13:15:17 Post Subject:

Are you backing up the db?

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 13:24:01 Post Subject:

Not with this step. It is backed up though.

Next step is to get that backed up more efficiently. It is part of the daily backup that overwrites itself every night, plus I manually DL it every night.

thePMG · Rated XXX Joined: 24 Apr 2004 Posts: 393 Location: Germany

korn shell? What *NIX did you first learn on, Misty?

BeerCheeze · Posted: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 21:39:11 Post Subject:

Let's put it this way.... she works for IBM

thePMG · Rated XXX Joined: 24 Apr 2004 Posts: 393 Location: Germany

AIX, neat, I've never gotten to play with that.

misty · Posted: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 19:08:54 Post Subject:

We aren't allowed to use bash, although I have heard a lot of good things about it. I have to stick to ksh. One of the products I support actually requires me to use csh though.

thePMG · Rated XXX Joined: 24 Apr 2004 Posts: 393 Location: Germany

So do you get to play with the Power boxes?

Power=teh pimpness Grin