Phil Dyer schrieb:
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:
actually, this "monday.tar" was an example which i wasn't really using. i was going to use
today/etc.tar today/home.tar ... but i like your idea - so simple too ;-)i just have to see if my backup space can take 7days of backup, otherwise i'll have to tune the namespace of the backups (e.g. 1.tar, 2.tar, 3.tar)
thank you, Christian. -- BOFH excuse #257: That would be because the software doesn't work.