Shell Programming and Scripting

someone please guide me for following task

1. how can i make script that copy data from specified folder to destination folder

2. make tar for the current system date

3. establish ftp connection to backup server and place that tar file there.


Regards,

Mazhar

It would appear that a simple search here on each of the three questions would provide insight. Or, read on your system by man cp to learn more about the copy command (for instance).

#!/bin/sh
date=`date +%F%R` #space between date and +
longdate=`date +%m%d%y`

tar -cf homedir.tar /home/userdir/*
cp /root/homedir.tar /root/homedir.$longdate.tar

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Here is another script you can modify and combine with the above script
#!/bin/bash
# Shell script to copy all files recursively and upload them to
# remote FTP server (copy local all directories/tree to remote ftp server)
#
# If you want to use this script in cron then make sure you have
# file pointed by $AUTHFILE (see below) and add lines to it:
# host ftp.mycorp.com
# user myftpuser
# pass mypassword
#
# This is a free shell script under GNU GPL version 2.0 or above
# Copyright (C) 2005 nixCraft

FTP="/usr/bin/ncftpput"
CMD=""
AUTHFILE="/root/.myupload"

if [ -f $AUTHFILE ] ; then
# use the file for auth
CMD="$FTP -m -R -f $AUTHFILE $myf $remotedir $localdir"
else
echo "*** To terminate at any point hit [ CTRL + C ] ***"
read -p "Enter ftpserver name : " myf
read -p "Enter ftp username : " myu
read -s -p "Enter ftp password : " myp
echo ""
read -p "Enter ftp remote directory [/] : " remotedir
read -p "Enter local directory to upload path [.] : " localdir
[ "$remotedir" == "" ] && remotedir="/" || :
[ "$localdir" == "" ] && localdir="." || :
CMD="$FTP -m -R -u $myu -p $myp $myf $remotedir $localdir"
fi

$CMD