[ale] Backup

[Glenn C. Lasher Jr.]

On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Arafat wrote:

> Could someone please help me out?
>
> I need to run a script that will backup a directory to a network drive once
> every day. With one added detail. If the file I'm backing up is called
> myfolder then the backup file should be
> //mynetworkdrive/myfolder.yy.mm.dd.time
>
> Anyone know how I can do this? Also, I need to do this on both a linux and a
> windoze box.

Can't help you with the Wind Blows side, but on the Linux box, you can:

cp myfolder //mynetworkdrive/myfolder.`date +"%Y.%m.%d.%H%M%S"`

Does that help?

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