I know there is a package to backup to CD - you can try looking on freshmeat for it. As far as getting rid of old backups, if you use the date command to date stamp your backup as part of the name, then the same cron job that creates the backups can get rid of the old ones.I've got a client that just "introduced" me to his RH8 linux server - nicely done, very simple, but the orginal "admin" had setup a backup script that backed up stuff weekley TO THE HARD DRIVE - until they had no hard drive space at all (gee, Ralph, that was smart, eh?)
Anyways, what I'd like to do is to create a backup to CDRW weekly, and keep four weeks worth of backups on the drive - NOTHING MORE. Previously I've done a very simple script for other customers, but nothing that required "date" or keeping redundant copies and deleting what would be the "fifth" week so that only four are on the HD, one on the CD...
(sniffles, gives puppy dog look)
I'm not a coder, I build boxes, administer boxes and setup networks...and I'm far from being a bash script master...laugh...yeah...that's cool...but I do need to figure this out as I've tried and well, it keeps screwing me up...
HELP!
stephen kuhn - proprietor
Something like BNAME=$(date +backup.%d.%m.%y) to genetate the name, and then somethig like ONAME=$(date -d-5week +backup.%d.%m.%y) to generate the name of the backup to remove.
Or if you were realy creative, you could probably modify logrotate to manage your backups...
Mikkel --
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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