[CentOS] Cronjob script with date stamp?
I have a cron job that calls a shell script - the script invokes dump. I'd like to do two things: - Have the script dump the results of the job to a text file. I tried this with /path/to/dump my switches -v /home/me/dump.log But that just produced an empty file. - Have the dump file be date-stamped with the date it was executed. Right now, I manually edit the script to change the filename to the date the dump will be taken. To get a differential dump, would I have dump produce its output to the same file each time? I would not want to overwright the existing contents. I'm currently dumping to a file on an external hard drive, but will eventually go to tape. Thanks for feedback. Scott ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Cronjob script with date stamp?
On 10/25/07, Scott Ehrlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a cron job that calls a shell script - the script invokes dump. I'd like to do two things: - Have the script dump the results of the job to a text file. I tried this with /path/to/dump my switches -v /home/me/dump.log But that just produced an empty file. And if you try to include error too using 21 : /path/to/dump my switches -v /home/me/dump.log 21 - Have the dump file be date-stamped with the date it was executed. Right now, I manually edit the script to change the filename to the date the dump will be taken. something like : echo `date +%F` /tmp/dump-`date +%F` To get a differential dump, would I have dump produce its output to the same file each time? I would not want to overwright the existing contents. I'm currently dumping to a file on an external hard drive, but will eventually go to tape. Thanks for feedback. Scott ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Alain Spineux aspineux gmail com May the sources be with you ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Cronjob script with date stamp?
Scott Ehrlich wrote: - Have the script dump the results of the job to a text file. I tried this with /path/to/dump my switches -v /home/me/dump.log But that just produced an empty file. Try appending 21 (without the quotes) to that command. - Have the dump file be date-stamped with the date it was executed. FILENAME=my-backup-`date +%Y%m%d`.dump ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
