[ale] tar and date

[Geoffrey]

Preston Boyington wrote:
> I want to have a shell script (that will run via a cron job) to tar.gz three directories and append the date to the single file (today.tar.gz).  Then I will rsync with another drive.
> 
> I think I need to do something like:
> 
> ------------------------
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> /bin/tar -zcpf /usr/local/share/data/`date +%Y-%m-%d`.tar.gz /usr/local/share/data/
> 
> rsync -CPaur /usr/local/share/data/ /backup/data/
> -------------------------
> 
> Does this look remotely correct to anyone?  Anything I am forgetting?

Looks fine to me.

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Until later, Geoffrey