This script creates directories like /oldversions/`date`/user1, /oldversions/`date`/user2, and so on.
If that's not acceptable you have to do much more work......
Create a reference file with the touch command in the /home directory and set the date and time of the file with the last copy date.
If the last copy is from 13 aug 2009 12:00 you can do something like:
I want to backup two important files everytime they are modified. How would I write a bash script that would check the dates of my zip files and my data files and only create a new zip file if the zip file is older than the two data files?
Thanks,
Siegfried (1 Reply)
Hello everyone!
I'm trying to make incremental tar archives of a folder for an example. On the box I use is UNIX AIX installed. I tried some sample codes I found on several web pages but with no success. Don't know what I'm doing wrong. Please write some sample code to make incremental tar... (0 Replies)
Hi All..
i am trying to write a script which will give the incremental tar backup of all files with latest timestam.
i tried with find -mmin -2
but if it takes half on hour or something to creat the tar itself, then no meaning in using the above command.
so please help me to find the... (2 Replies)
Hello everyone.
Could you please advise of what would be the best Unix (Debian 4) program for regular (daily or weekly) incremental backups?
I'm not sure whether the backups will be stored on a "backup" drive on the same system or on an external "backup" system, but we would like to have a... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I would like to create a daily incremental backup of a directory with all of the files within and add a timestamp (year-month-day) to the tar.gz file.
I have the following, but it doesn't backup the inside files of the directory.
#!/bin/bash
tar -czf... (1 Reply)
I have a folder /root/test in a centos 5.3 system. I want to take an incremental backup of the contents of the folder in the C:\Downloads folder of a windows system present in the same lan as the linux system. What are the ways of executing this plan? Kindly help (0 Replies)
Hello all!
This is my first post and I'm very new to programming. I would like help creating a simple perl or bash script that I will be using in my work as a junior bioinformatician.
Essentially, I would like to take a tab-delimted or .csv text with 3 columns and write them to a "3D" matrix:
... (16 Replies)
Hi, i'm new here(and a newbie) and i need some help with a project. I need to write a script for an incremental backup (this must be executed every day at 24:00) and a full backup (executed once a month) for etc/var/home directories. Can someone please help me with this? And a small explanation of... (9 Replies)
Hi. Can someone tell me if the following script that i have made is a script for INCREMENTAL BACKUP or FULL BACKUP. My teacher told me that is doing an FULL BACKUP.
• find /etc /var /home -newer /backups/.backup_reference > /backups/.files_to_archive
• touch /backups/.backup_reference
• tar... (1 Reply)
This is the problem: Write a script that will make a backup of a file giving it a ‘.bak’ extension & verify that it works. I have tried a number of different scripts that haven't worked and I haven't seen anything really concise and to the point via google. For brevity's sake this is one of the... (4 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
sulog
sulog(4) File Formats sulog(4)NAME
sulog - su command log file
SYNOPSIS
/var/adm/sulog
DESCRIPTION
The sulog file is a record of all attempts by users on the system to execute the su(1M) command. Each time su(1M) is executed, an entry
is added to the sulog file.
Each entry in the sulog file is a single line of the form:
SU date time
result port user-newuser
where
date The month and date su(1M) was executed. date is displayed in the form mm/dd where mm is the month number and dd is the
day number in the month.
time The time su(1M) was executed. time is displayed in the form HH/MM where HH is the hour number (24 hour system) and MM
is the minute number.
result The result of the su(1M) command. A ` + ' sign is displayed in this field if the su attempt was successful; otherwise a
` - ' sign is displayed.
port The name of the terminal device from which su(1M) was executed.
user The user id of the user executing the su(1M) command.
newuser The user id being switched to with su(1M).
EXAMPLES
Example 1: A sample sulog file.
Here is a sample sulog file:
SU 02/25 09:29 + console root-sys
SU 02/25 09:32 + pts/3 user1-root
SU 03/02 08:03 + pts/5 user1-root
SU 03/03 08:19 + pts/5 user1-root
SU 03/09 14:24 - pts/5 guest3-root
SU 03/09 14:24 - pts/5 guest3-root
SU 03/14 08:31 + pts/4 user1-root
FILES
/var/adm/sulog su log file
/etc/default/su contains the default location of sulog
SEE ALSO su(1M)SunOS 5.10 6 Jun 1994 sulog(4)