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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting crontab, automating tasks Post 302667777 by dr_mabuse on Saturday 7th of July 2012 06:50:52 AM
Old 07-07-2012
crontab, automating tasks

I want to back up some of my system folders on a regular basis. Let's say some every day, but some other every week.
I kinda know how to get backup like this form:
Code:
tar cjf archive-$(date +%Y%m%d).tbz2 / -N ./archive-$(date -d yesterday +%Y%m%d)

But, I DONT KNOW how to add this files to the crontab file as a command, so that it will get execute according to the min, hour, day .. that we set.

Moreover, I would thank if you also mention some command to remove the backed up data from time to time, let's say those which are 3 months old shall get deleted,

tnx
 

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sa2(8)							    BSD System Manager's Manual 						    sa2(8)

NAME
sa2 -- Generate a system activity daily report file. SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/sa/sa2 [-dgpu] [-n mode] [-e time] [-f filename] [-i seconds] [-s time] DESCRIPTION
The sa2 command is a shell script used to invoke the system activity reporter sar for purposes of generating the standard default daily report file. The report file generated is, /var/log/sa/sardd where the dd represents the current day of the month. The sa2 options are the same as those documented in sar(1). When sa2 runs, it will also remove data and report files, found in /var/log/sa, that are more than one week old. The sa2 command is intended to be started by cron. EXAMPLE CRON ENTRY
# Starting at 8am collect system activity records # every 20 minutes for 12 hours # 20 minutes = 1200 seconds # 12 hours with 3 samples each hour = 36 loops 0 8 * * 1-5 /usr/lib/sa/sa1 1200 36 # After the 12 hour period, # collect a system activity report 30 20 * * 1-5 /usr/lib/sa/sa2 -A FILES
/var/log/sa/sardd Default daily report file. /var/log/sa/sadd Default daily data file. dd are digits that represent the day of the month. SEE ALSO
crontab(1), fs_usage(1), netstat(1), sar(1), sc_usage(1), top(1), vm_stat(1), crontab(5), iostat(8), sa1(8), sadc(8) Mac OS X Jul 25 2003 Mac OS X
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