From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler@tysdomain.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: bash script help, and killall resolved
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:12:25 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E2FF0CDDC2C94A228267293EA1306FC1@tdsportable> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081013000544.GA6987@localhost.localdomain>
I need to keep previous backups, but I'll check that out. thanks.
Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: bash script help, and killall resolved
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> On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 04:54:23PM -0600, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
>> I've got the tarring done, though for some reason it's preserving the
>> whole directory structure and puts the file under home/vertigo/moo/db.db
>> rather than just untarring db.db
>
> This is normal tar behavior. If that's not what you want, then instead
> of doing
> tar -zcvf ~/backups/`date '+%m-%d-%Y_%H'`.tar.gz ~/moo/db.db
> do
> cd ~/moo
> tar -zcvf ~/backups/`date '+%m-%d-%Y_%H'`.tar.gz db.db
>
>> I'm at a loss, as to how to make it preserve the date through backup
>> though. This is my current script:
>
> Just a thought, but why not modify your script to create a directory
> using the output of date (like you're doing in your tar command now),
> put db.db in that directory, and tar up that new directory, instead of
> just db.db. You'd also want to write a script that will remove any
> directories with yesterday's date.
>
>> I'm able to ccrypt, but I am looking for solutions on sending it via ftp,
>> ideas would be welcome there.
>
> I'd suggest installing ncftp, and looking at the man page for
> ncftpput(1), it looks like it should do what you want.
>
> Greg
>
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