Re: [Nolug] enumerating tar backups

Thou spake:
<snip>
>At work, I keep 7 days worth of backups, and use the day of the week
>in the name. That way, it's easy to tell what backup was made on which
>day. If you really only want three, then you could do some math using
>the time since epoch in seconds divided by 86400 modulus 3 plus 1:
>
>$ echo Backup_0$(((`date +%s`/86400)%3+1)).tgz
>Backup_02.tgz
>
>Andy Johnson

As usual, there's more than one way to do it. I also had trouble making tar
do numbered backups, so here's what I wrote using command substitutions:

tar -zcf /path/to/archive.`date +%Y%m%d`.tgz /path/to/directory

-- 
Joey Kelly
< Minister of the Gospel | Linux Consultant >
http://joeykelly.net
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