Hi all ... I am writting a weekly automated backup script, very simple .. tars a directory called 'myfiles' to a second hard drive.
Works AOK except I want the name of the file written by tar to be the time and date. So I get a list of tared dated backups I know 'date' gives me exactly what I want but I cant figure out how to get tar to write a file with the value of date as its file name ... #! /bin/sh # Backup entire 'myfiles/' directory, name it with the date. cd /usr/local/ tar -czf /mnt/archive/autoarchive/date myfiles I put this in /etc/cron.weekly and I get a file called date !!??? I have tried '' and "" all to no avail Any hints ?? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
