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From: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
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Subject: Re: backup problems with tar script
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| If that's what you wanna do,
| 
|   #!/bin/sh
|   #
| 
|   PREV_FILE=~/.admin/date.home.dump
|   NOW=`date`
|   LABEL=`date +%Y%m%d`
|   PREV=`cat $PREV_FILE`
| 
|   tar czlvfNV /mnt/zip/etc_$LABEL.tgz "$PREV" "From $PREV to $NOW" /etc
| 
|   echo $NOW > $PREV_FILE

Thank you sir, 'preciate the help.  I'll give this one a shot.

| But I gotta say, is your /etc really changing daily?

No, I was just using it for testing for two reasons:  It is small, and I
don't have to worry about  making sure it doesn't archive itself in the
process.


jcm
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