I'm almost done on my script. I'm just thinking if there are other
parameters in find wherein I can search the files by month and not by
mtime (modification time) and then tar it.
Jeremiah Bess wrote:
> For 1, best option is to run this script as a cron job when there is
> little load on the server (midnight for example).
> For 2, a simple for loop will run the backup commands for each user in
> "/home". Example: "for user in /home/*; do {backup and delete
> commands}; done". You would use $user/Maildir/backup as the variable
> in the commands.
> For 3, I use the command "find $BACKUPDIR -mtime +68 -delete" to keep
> just over 2 months of backups, and then delete them. I use +68 so it
> keeps a full week plus one day accounting for 31 days in a single
> month. You can modify this and add to the for loop.
>
>
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