On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 02:49 -0400, Andrew Conkling wrote:
> I've made a backup script to be executed in my crontab, but it's a bit
> dirty and I'd appreciate it if anyone could help me clean it up a bit.
> I've added comments to indicate what I'd like to do with it (i.e. where
> my scripting skills are inadequate):
>
> #!/bin/bash
> evolution-1.5 --force-shutdown
Hey, that's clever. I wonder if it will cause all instances of Evo
to die, if run by root?
> export TIME=`clock` # This spits out a lot of time info; I'd like to
> make this a bit terser
$ x=`date +%y%m%d.%H%M` # great for timestamping files
$ echo $x
040420.0204
$ stime=`date +"%F %R"` # nice and human readable
$ echo $stime
2004-04-20 02:04
> tar
> -cfz /home/andrew/.evolution_files_$TIME.tar.gz /home/andrew/.evolution/*
Try this instead:
cd ~andrew
$ x=`date +%y%m%d.%H%M` # great for timestamping files
tar cfj evolution_files_${x}.tar.bz2 \
--recursion \
--exclude=.evolution/cache/http \
--exclude=.evolution/imap \
.evolution
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Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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