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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Schedule backup with crontab/tar Post 302851191 by Float on Sunday 8th of September 2013 07:04:22 AM
Old 09-08-2013
I think I might have misunderstood something fundamental about the syntax. Just entering
Code:
tar cvf important.tar important

gave me the tar file, and I read somewhere that using crontab will let you schedule any command by simply adding the schedule times before the command.

You've lost me. usr/bin/backup - is this a file you have created, and given it the code that you typed out? What kind of file is this? And is it necessary to give the path like you did, if it is in the same directory as the folder I want to be backed up? Can I do this with cronbar:

Code:
45 18 * * 6 /runthis

and then make a runthis.txt file with code:

Code:
rm important.tar
tar cvf important.tar important

to make it work?

---------- Post updated 08-09-13 at 01:04 PM ---------- Previous update was 07-09-13 at 06:43 PM ----------

My previous post only explains that I've got no idea what I'm doing. It is most helpful if you ignore it, and answer this:

How do I add the code to usr/bin/tar.exe?
I did ls -l in usr/bin and there is no backup but there is a tar.exe in there.
 

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GIT-TAR-TREE(1) 						    Git Manual							   GIT-TAR-TREE(1)

NAME
git-tar-tree - Create a tar archive of the files in the named tree object SYNOPSIS
git tar-tree [--remote=<repo>] <tree-ish> [ <base> ] DESCRIPTION
THIS COMMAND IS DEPRECATED. Use git archive with --format=tar option instead (and move the <base> argument to --prefix=base/). Creates a tar archive containing the tree structure for the named tree. When <base> is specified it is added as a leading path to the files in the generated tar archive. git tar-tree behaves differently when given a tree ID versus when given a commit ID or tag ID. In the first case the current time is used as modification time of each file in the archive. In the latter case the commit time as recorded in the referenced commit object is used instead. Additionally the commit ID is stored in a global extended pax header. It can be extracted using git get-tar-commit-id. OPTIONS
<tree-ish> The tree or commit to produce tar archive for. If it is the object name of a commit object. <base> Leading path to the files in the resulting tar archive. --remote=<repo> Instead of making a tar archive from local repository, retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository. CONFIGURATION
tar.umask This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of tar archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the world write bit. The special value "user" indicates that the archiving user's umask will be used instead. See umask(2) for details. EXAMPLES
git tar-tree HEAD junk | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -) Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the latest commit on the current branch, and extracts it in /var/tmp/junk directory. git tar-tree v1.4.0 git-1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz Create a tarball for v1.4.0 release. git tar-tree v1.4.0^{tree} git-1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz Create a tarball for v1.4.0 release, but without a global extended pax header. git tar-tree --remote=example.com:git.git v1.4.0 >git-1.4.0.tar Get a tarball v1.4.0 from example.com. git tar-tree HEAD:Documentation/ git-docs > git-1.4.0-docs.tar Put everything in the current head's Documentation/ directory into git-1.4.0-docs.tar, with the prefix git-docs/. GIT
Part of the git(1) suite Git 1.7.10.4 11/24/2012 GIT-TAR-TREE(1)
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