Re: Backup Script

[Mike Schienle <mgs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, September 25, 2001, at 03:18 PM, Alain Russell wrote:

> I have a backup script that runs every day and tars the items need to backup
> on my server and then ftp's the file across to a remote backup server.
>
> What I would like to do is keep 7 days worth of backups on the local machine
> and have then removed automatically as time moves on.
>
> Does anyone know what I would need to modify below to do this. .

Hi Alain -

I have a page that might give you some extra ideas for your backup 
and ftp strategy at <http://www.ivsoftware.com/backup.shtml>. You can 
put dates in the file names and use cron with find to do some of the 
work for you.

Mike Schienle
Interactive Visuals, Inc.
http://www.ivsoftware.com

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