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i want each individual archive to contain a folder for www and database... so _backups is currently the parent directory of the final archive file... which just throws the database and the files in...

i want to take the database archive, put it in _backups in a folder called 'database', then i want to take the site, put it in _backups in a folder called 'www', and have the entire thing archived.

how can i move "dataName".sql.gz into a folder called 'database' and then move "$fileName".tar.gz * .htaccess into a folder called 'www' with the entire gzipped file being "$fileName".tar.gz? Is...

Thanks for pointing that out i thought i had changed that. How could i go about catching errors to be output in the email. Also, is it not necessary to have the .sh extension on my bash/cron script?...

yes, CD!

Here is the latest, and stripped down version. I removed all the tput and formatting stuff since cron doesn't bother with it. A few questions, what permissions would make the most sense...

How do I encrypt a plaintext password that I need hardcoded in a bash script?

Thanks guys! Lots to look over here...

Hi, I've got a Bash backup script I'm trying to run on a directory via a cron job nightly. If I ssh in and run the script manually it works flawlessly. If I set up the cron to run evertything is...

blink=$(tput blink) reset=$(tput sgr0)
printf "%s" "${blink}Archiving...${reset}"



This works... but the same as what I setup where after the process it keeps blinking. I'll check out some of...

Trying to make some blinking text to designate a process taking place. Trying to figure out how when the process is complete how to end the blinking. I could clear out but then I lose any prior...

Cool. Thanks for the explanation!

Will this work to delete files 30 days old in $backupDir or is there a better way to do it?


find $backupDir -type f -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;

ah, that makes sense!

Trying out a different script here:

How come if I use the following script and select b at the prompt:


#!/bin/bash
#@author MagePsycho <magepsycho@gmail.com>...

Hello,

I'm trying to backup Wordpress files and database with a shell script. I found one online that works great and am trying to work it a bit to provide more notices and progress info as well...