Easy backups (aka "xaff has a go at shellscripting&quot

[Guest xaff]

I decided that I needed a backup routine for my webstuff, so I decided to make a small shell script to do it. (I swear to god, small shell scripts are going to rule the earth one day.)

 

#

# These are the only settings that you need to care about

#

  # Define what to back up

backup="/home/*/public_html/";

  # Define where to put it

backupdir="/home/xaff/backup/";

  # Define a short reference name for the archives

type="web";





#

# Nothing to see here.. :P

#

timestamp=`date '+%Y-%b-%a-%d'`;

backupname="$backupdir$type-$timestamp.tar";



tar -cf $backupname $backup

 

Now to crontab it.. :mystismiles:

 

Edit: Either I did it wrong, or it was easy.

 

crontab -e



0 0 * * 1,3,5,7 sh /home/xaff/scripts/backup.sh