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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:33:43 -0600
To: ann kok <annkok2001@yahoo.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
From: jacks@sage-american.com
Subject: Re: crontab to backup mail in date format
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Might be best to place those in a script and call the script from cron...
the script could also contain an email to notice you of the event.....

At 08:17 AM 1.14.2002 -0800, ann kok wrote:
>Hi all
>
>I have problem about crontab to backup mail in date
>format
>
>error from root:
>/bin/sh: unexpected EOF while looking for ``'
> >/bin/sh: -c: line 2: syntax erro
>
>
>My contrab is as follows:
>
>5 21 * * * tar czvf /backup/`date
>"+%Y-%m-%d"`home.tar.gz /home > /dev/null 2>&1
>59 23 * * * tar cvf /backup/`date
>"+%Y-%m-%d"`backupmail.tar /mail > /dev/null 2>&1
>
>
>But I don't have problem when not using the date
>format
>
>TIA
>
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