Cron Issue

["Brooks R. Robinson" <brooks.robinson@rides.com>]

Greetings List!
	Hey I have a cron issue I can't resolve.  I have a standalone Debian
machine that I use as a PostgreSQL server for a bunch of different
databases.  Up until a few weeks ago, this data really wasn't a critical,
but now it's become very important, so I need to back it up.  I had been
doing a simple dump in cron like so:

30 4 * * *      pg_dump -d FSDetail | gzip > /var/tmp/FSDetail.gz

	There are no problems with it, and if the system died, I figured that I'd
be able to either get to the actual database or to the backup, or recreate
it without too much headache.  But like I said, it's become critical.  I
would like automagic serialized backups so I want to do something like this:

cp /var/tmp/FSDetail.gz /backup/PostgreSQL/`date +FS%y%m%d.gz`

	This give me a file like FS050316.gz, FS050317.gz, etc.  The /backup
directory is an SMB share on a NAS server that is routinely backed up.
However if I put this into cron:

30 6 * * *      cp /var/tmp/FSDetail.gz /backup/PostgreSQL/`date
+FS%y%m%d.gz`
or
30 6 * * *      'cp /var/tmp/FSDetail.gz /backup/PostgreSQL/`date
+FS%y%m%d.gz`'
or
30 6 * * *      "cp /var/tmp/FSDetail.gz /backup/PostgreSQL/`date
+FS%y%m%d.gz`"
or even
30 8 * * *      cp /var/tmp/FSDetail.gz /backup/PostgreSQL/$(date
+FS%y%m%d).gz

	I get something similar to this:

/bin/sh: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
/bin/sh: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file

	What do I do to fix this?

Thanks,

Brooks

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Brooks R. Robinson, CPA, MBA, MSCS
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