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From: Nathan Mace <nmace85@yahoo.com>
To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: backups of log files
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 20:31:47 -0500
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On Tuesday 12 March 2002 08:25 pm, you wrote:
> Nathan Mace <nmace85@yahoo.com> writes:
> > the problem is that the next time it does it, it overrides the 1st
> > backup, so how can i get it name them backup1.tar or name them after
> > the date like 1102.tar for january 1st 2002?
>
> 'perldoc POSIX', 'man strftime', and ask questions like this on
> questions@ please :)

sorry, didn't know where exactly this question should go

Nathan

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