Need Help with making Mysql and ftp automated backups

[jchord]

Hello everyone!
Now I am new to Linux and am just starting to get firmilar with my Ubuntu 7.04 server. The more I use it the more I like it and Linux in general! I used to have windows on that machine and I used it as a ftp/http/backup server. so far I have the Linux machine doing ftp/http and lan backups using samba.

I have been trying to make a shell script that will run once a week and do the following:

1. visit a url (to run a php script)
2. Download a folder via ftp
3. place it in a dir that has a date for it's name
4. and if there is more than X# of these dirs delete the oldest

Now I don't know much about shell scripts so I don't know if this is possible. If it is how would I accomplish the first one and the last two. (as I'm using wget for #2)

Any help is much appreciated!

[tpl]

welcome to the forum

I don't understand yr #1, but here's some ideas about #3 & #4:

> 3. place it in a dir that has a date for it's name

suppose we take the date of download as the name to use:

mkdir `date +%D | sed 's/\//-/g'` gives a directory 05-24-07

> 4. and if there is more than X# of these dirs delete the oldest

suppose all and only our dated directories are in some directory D

cd D; ls | sort | sed '1,X#d' | xargs rm -r