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Old 09-21-2016
In an earlier OS, using a backup package to create the file I used cron to step it through the directory queue:
backup file created at 3:01 AM
at 4:01 I cleared the backup4 directory
at 4:15 I moved backup3 contents to backup4
at 5:15 I moved backup2 contents to backup3
at 6:15 I moved backup1 contents to backup2
at 7:15 I moved the current backup to backup1

for the weekly it would have been a matter of copying the Sunday backup to a similar queue.

It helped that I put the entire backup system on it's own file system on it's own hard drive and that the daily backup was burned to CD first. Over 15 years and as many as 6 machines I only have had 1 issue where this failed me and I had to reconstruct from CD.
# 9  
Old 09-21-2016
I was able to get my client to agree to have a seperate folder for the weekly backups.

Changed crontab to copy every sunday both in daily and a weekly.

Thanks
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