Christian said: > hi, > > i'm trying to write a backup script which is directly saving the > valueable data to my ftp-backup space. i was going to use ncftpput, > because it lets me do this: > > tar cvf - /home | ncftpput -u operator -c server /backups/monday.tar > > so i can backup direct to my backup space without saving it to the local > disk (which is a good thing, as content grows...). but this way i also > have to rotate the backups on the backup space. but if you do it like above, won't you only have 7 days, and then it starts overwriting? No need to rotate. I see a script doing something like this: #!/bin/bash weekday=`date +'%a'` tar cvf - /home | ncftpput -u operator -c server \ /backups/home_$weekday.tar then in backups/ you'll have home_Sun.tar home_Mon.tar etc... and after 7 days it will just start overwriting so it will never grow beyond a weeks worth. -- phil
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