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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting backup of files for a specific date Post 302219848 by BMDan on Wednesday 30th of July 2008 08:02:40 AM
Old 07-30-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by akm9999
I want to write script for backing up archive logs files for specific date.
please give me idea for that.
Okay, given the amount of information you gave here, the following are all valid (in increasing order of absurdity):

Since you specified neither flexibility nor name format:
Code:
mv /var/log/*20070821* /mnt/archive
gzip -9 /mnt/archive/*



Since you didn't say where you wanted them to go, nor what you wanted to do with them afterwords:
Code:
mkdir "/dev/my backup directory"
mv /var/log/*2007* "/dev/my backup directory/"
sed -i '/:[0-9][0-5]:/ {d}' "/dev/my backup directory/*"

Finally, my pièce de résistance:
Code:
#!/bin/bash

if [ x$1 == x ]; then
    echo "Syntax: $0 <date>"
    exit 1
fi

cat $(grep -l $1 /var/log/*) | tar -cz | gzip -9 - > /dev/shm/archive-$1.tgz
rm -f $(grep -l $1 /var/log/*)

 

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bf_tar

BF_TAR(1)						    Bogofilter Reference Manual 						 BF_TAR(1)

NAME

       bf_tar - shell script to write a tar file of a bogofilter directory to stdout

SYNOPSIS

       bf_tar [-r] [-R] bogofilter_directory

DESCRIPTION

       bf_tar bundles a bogofilter working directory in tar format and copies it to standard output (your console, or where you redirect it, see
       EXAMPLES below).

OPTIONS

       The -r option causes bf_tar to remove inactive log files after the archive has been written successfully. The default is to leave log
       files.

       The -R option causes bf_tar to remove inactive log files before the archive is written. This may reduce chances that the resulting archive
       is recoverable should it become damaged. The archive may be smaller though. The default is to leave log files.

EXIT STATUS

       The script exits with status code 0 if everything went well, and nonzero if it encountered trouble.

EXAMPLES

       o   bf_tar ~/.bogofilter > outfile.tar

	   Writes a standard .tar file containing the essential files from ~/.bogofilter to outfile.tar.

       o   bf_tar ~/.bogofilter | gzip -9 -c > outfile.tar.gz

	   Writes a gzipped .tar.gz file containing the essential files from ~/.bogofilter to outfile.tar.gz.

       o   bf_tar `pwd`/mydirectory > outfile.tar

	   Prepend $(pwd)/ or `pwd`/ if you want to specify an absolute path instead of a relative path.

NOTES

       This script is meant for use with Berkeley DB based bogofilter versions.

       This script requires a SUSv2 compliant pax utility.

       This script expects a SUSv2 compliant shell. Solaris systems should have the SUNWxcu4 package installed (when bogofilter is configured) so
       that /usr/xpg4/bin/sh can be used.

AUTHORS

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