Personally, i think that using dates (or other form of timestamps) in filenames is not necessarily a good idea: the advantage of knowing when it was created/last modified without relying on inode information is somewhat alleviated by the unability to restrict the creation of files to a certain number of generations.
The usual case is like this: create a daily backup and keep a certain number of generations (say: 5). One option is to create a script creating a timestamp-named output file and then another script to delete the 6th-oldest such file (if it exists). Run both scripts daily. Possible problem: the second script is oftenly forgotten and the backups fill up your diskspace.
Another option is to create a file with a fixed name and apply logic to rename this file until a name for deletion is reached after a certain number of generations:
Advantage: you only need one script and you never have to bother with a process filling up your diskspace with numbers of old backups.
Ok so once again im back with what is probably a beginner question although somewhat more complicated (for me) than the last.
Background:
A client has a daily backup which is carried out via rsync.
Due to this, when they move a file around that file is then coppied a second time.
On top of... (4 Replies)
Hi guys iv been working on a bit of script to do a backup and restore
Im going to uni next year and trying to prepare myself
Basically all im wanting is a simple script that shows a menu and does what ever the user inputs
here is my code
#!/bin/sh
# Backup des
backup= "/root/Russell/"... (2 Replies)
Hi Everyone,
we are running rsync with --backup mode, Are there any rsync options to remove backup folders on successful deployment?
Thanks in adv. (0 Replies)
Hello,
I am facing a very strange problem when I run my script manuallu ./Fetchcode which is using to connect with MKS integrity from linux end it workks fine but when I run it from cron it doesn't work.Can someone help me
1) How could I check my script when it is running from cron like... (3 Replies)
Help. My script is working fine when executed manually but the cron seems not to catch up the command when registered.
The script is as follow:
#!/bin/sh
for file in file_1.txt file_2.txt file_3.txt
do
awk '{ print "0" }' $file > tmp.tmp
mv tmp.tmp $file
done
And the cron... (2 Replies)
HI all, im new to shell scripting. need your guidence for my script. i wrote one script and is attached here
Im explaining the requirement of script.
AIM: Shell script to run automatically as per scheduled and backup few network devices configurations. Script will contain a set of commands... (4 Replies)
We are taking backup of our application data(cobol file system, AIX/unix) before and after EOD job runs. The data size is approximately 260 GB in biggest branch. To reduce the backup time, 5 parallel execution is scheduled through control-m which backups up the files in 5 different *.gz. The job... (2 Replies)
We are taking backup of our application data(cobol file system, AIX/unix) before and after EOD job runs. The data size is approximately 260 GB in biggest branch. To reduce the backup time, 5 parallel execution is scheduled through control-m which backups up the files in 5 different *.gz. The job... (8 Replies)
I am having one heck of a time, and I need anyone that can assist in finding my issue here....
First off, here is the script we are using:
pastebin dot com slash njwUg6vd
All usernames and passwords have been edited out. We are using an actual database user, and not root (tried both).
I... (0 Replies)
Hi All,
During my virtual machine power on i have rc3.d script to accept user inputs like IP address. This script gets executed during first time boot up. It was working fine till my VM is using RHEL6.5. Now we migrated to RHEL 7 environment. While accepting the user inputs in console, I... (4 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
dwww-refresh-cache
DWWW-REFRESH-CACHE(8) Debian DWWW-REFRESH-CACHE(8)NAME
dwww-refresh-cache - rebuilds dwww cache directory
SYNOPSIS
dwww-refresh-cache
DESCRIPTION
dwww-refresh-cache is a simple shell script, which deletes outdated cache files and rebuilds contents of the dwww cache directory
/var/cache/dwww. In default installation, the script is called from /etc/cron.daily/dwww, so the cache is refreshed every day.
CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
DWWW_KEEPDAYS
Specifies, how many days documents that have not been accessed should be kept in the cache. Default is 10 days.
DWWW_QUICKFIND_DB
Location of the installed packages and programs cache file, generated with help of dwww-quickfind(8). Default is
/var/cache/dwww/quickfind.dat.
DWWW_DOCBASE2PKG_DB
Location of the cache file, which maps installed doc-base files to packages names, used by the dwww-build-menu(8). Default is
/var/cache/dwww/docbase2pkg.dat.
FILES
/etc/dwww/dwww.conf
Configuration file for dwww(7).
/var/cache/dwww
dwww cache directory.
/etc/cron.daily/dwww.
dwww daily cron job
SEE ALSO dwww(7), dwww-build-menu(8), dwww-cache(8), dwww-find(8).
AUTHOR
Robert Luberda.
See dwww(7), for copyrights and stuff.
dwww 1.11.1 February 15th, 2009 DWWW-REFRESH-CACHE(8)