Archive Script

[Self-Defence]

Hi,

I'm trying to make a script that I'd add to cron that would pack some files in an archive file and prifix the curent date to the filename.

Curently this is how it's setup:

tar -c /home/user/archive/filename.tgz /home/user/folder/*.gif /home/user/folder/*.jpg /home/user/folder/*.png

But I still don't know how to make the archive into a zip file and how to prifix the date into the filename. Something like /home/user/archive/26-11-2006_filename.zip .

Thanks for the help

[anomie]

This information is all available in the man pages for tar and date.

[hector@troy ~]$ date +%d-%m-%Y
26-11-2006

[hector@troy ~]$ tar czf backup somefile1 
[hector@troy ~]$ file backup 
backup: gzip compressed data ...

Finally, you can simply mv the filename such that it's prefixed with the date. Example: BACKUP1=/some/file1
DATE1=$(date +%d-%m-%Y)
mv "$BACKUP1" "$DATE1"_"$BACKUP1"

[Self-Defence]

Cool, thank you >anomie< it works great.

Thanks again