On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 00:24, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > 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. > > 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
Ta, Mikkel - now I'm getting on the right track; and what I'm trying to avoid is the use of a "program" - I want to have a script - I know it can be done, I've dealt with this issue before - but long ago and didn't keep a hard copy of it - and it worked flawlessly... stephen kuhn - proprietor ============================== illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com mobile: 0410.728.389 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 07:12:25 up 1 day, 16:00, 3 users, load average: 0.27, 0.17, 0.07 ------------------------------------------------------------------ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents ------------------------------------------------------------------ This email is virus-free because we don't use Microsoft products Academicians care, that's who.
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