On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 10:29:27AM -0400, Karen Donathan wrote: > What is the best way to back up the html directory? We do not have a > tape drive. Is there a way to have an automated .tar file created and > sent as email so I could save it on another server? Any help would be > great!
Yeah. This sort of thing is easy to do with a very small shell script. From your specifications, something like this will do the job: #!/bin/sh PATH=/bin:/usr/bin ; export PATH htmldir=/usr/local/www/data recipient="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" today=$(date +%Y%m%d) tar -cvjf - ${htmldir} | uuencode backup-${today}.tar.bz2 | \ mail -s "Backup of ${htmldir} on ${today}" ${recipient} \ >>/var/log/backup.log 2>&1 Save that to a file, make it executable and run it out of root's crontab on a daily basis: @daily /usr/local/bin/mybackupscript (be sure you understand the difference between /etc/crontab and /var/cron/tabs/root, and how to use crontab(1) correctly: do *not* feed /etc/crontab into the crontab command.) The recipient should use procmail or similar to feed the backup messages into uudecode and so extract the compressed tar file. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK
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