Hello All,

I am currently in the process of BACKING UP over 160GB of data, where currently all files have been archived into directories, sub-directories and so fore by day, in the format for example
archive/data/2009-11-01
Or
archive/data/test/2009-11-01

The issue I’m having, is currently I need to backup by day (or by week), with the TAR command (I'm backing up onto disk via Sun Server), without dumping all the files for a day (or week) into a separate folder – and then backing up.

I’ve try using the following command:
Tar cv1 */2009-11-0[3-8] //first for week of November

Initially thought the wildcard (*) would back up all files in any directory named 2009-11-03 or 2009-11-04 from my current root directory ( ~archive/ )
But this command only back up all files that are a direct sub folder of the currently directory I’m in i.e.:

Archive/data/2009-11-03
Or
Archive/*/2009-11-04

And does not backup files that are in a further sub-directory (or more down) for example
Archive/data/DBA/2009-11-04
Or
Archive/*/*/*/2009-11-03

I've played about with scripting, but become stuck and reasoned it should be simpler I believe (???) – does anyone know an alteration or have any ideas to the above command that can help with my objective?

Use "find" to get the list of files you want and tar from that list.

Previous I did the find step and created a list but the tar command doesnt work in the same way as copying would for example:

for i in `cat week1`; do cp -p $i /archive/data/backup; done // with week 1 being my list of files found using ' find ' -I can copy of the file to a directory with the same date stamp

But I'm unable to do a similar command for tar (keeping the name stamp) - continually getting syntax errors...



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