Recursively Compress Directories for Backup

[neilc1976]

Hello

This may be a simple thing to do but I'm a little stuck !

I have the following directory structure

www/

www/folder1
www/folder2
www/folder3

Each folder (1,2 and 3) has many subfolders and file within.

I want to be able run a shell script that goes through the www folder and makes compressed tar archives of each folder with that foldername ready for backup offsite

So the result would be

www/folder1.tar.gz
www/folder2.tar.gz
www/folder3.tar.gz

The original folders would be left intact and untouched as they are used by others.

I know how to do one folder at a time but not all the diretories from one script.

Thanks in advance

[Lost_scrib]

Perhaps this could be of some use:

#! /bin/bash

for D in www/*
do
  if [ -d "$D" ]
  then
    echo "Directory $D"
    tar -cvjf "`dirname "$D"`/`basename "$D"`.tar.bz2" "$D"
  else
    echo "Not a directory $D"
  fi
done

For names beginning with "." you have to find an alternative though

[jaykup]

A nice script. Just replace the www/* with `find .` to see hidden files, directories, etc.

Try this one also ~~

#!/bin/bash
DIR=/var/www
LS=`which ls`

#cd $DIR

echo $LS | bash |
while read x;
do 
	if [ -d "$x" ]
		then
			echo "backing up $x..."
			tar -cjf "$x".tar.gz "$x"
	fi
done

This will work for folders with spaces in them too!